United States v. Minter

ORDER

TIMOTHY C. BATTEN, SR., District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on Defendant Jasen Minter’s objections [103] to Magistrate Judge Vineyard’s Report and Recommendation (“R & R”) [95], which recommends that Defendants’ motion to dismiss the indictment [19] be denied and that Minter be found competent to stand trial.

A district judge has a duty to conduct a “careful and complete” review of a magistrate judge’s R & R. Williams v. Wainwright, 681 F.2d 732, 732 (11th Cir.1982) (quoting Nettles v. Wainwright, 677 F.2d 404, 408 (5th Cir.1982)).1 This review may take different forms,…