United States v. Payne

OPINION

ALAN E. NORRIS, Circuit Judge.

Defendant was initially indicted in 1998 along with several co-defendants, and currently stands charged with multiple counts involving drugs, firearms, and violence, including multiple murders. The government has filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty.

Since defendant’s original indictment, he has been adjudicated incompetent to stand trial. In November 2005, doctors at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri (“Springfield”), the federal facility where defendant was being held, determined that he needed to…