United States v. Gregory McKown

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Gregory McKown was charged with threatening to assault and murder two federal employees. Under 18 U.S.C. § 4241 (d), the district court found that he lacked capacity to stand trial and ordered his temporary hospitalization to determine whether he might regain competency in the foreseeable future. We join the unanimous chorus of circuit courts in holding that such mandatory, limited confinement accords with due process.

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McKown has suffered from grandiose and persecutory delusional disorder for over thirty-eight years. In 2017, he sought to collect retroactive…