United States v. Steven Evans

SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.

Steven Evans was indicted for unlawfully attempting to remove his children from the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1204(a). On request of Evans’s counsel, the district court 2 ordered that Evans be detained to undergo a competency evaluation as allowed by 18 U.S.C. § 4241(b). Based on the competency evaluation, the court found that Evans was not competent to proceed with the trial and ordered that he be hospitalized under section 4241(d) for a period not to exceed four months to determine whether there was a substantial probability that Evans would attain…