Legal Opinion
Ecker v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 3, 2009No. 08-1508, 08-1509PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we are required to resolve the fate of John L. Ecker, who was charged with a federal crime and detained in 1989 and subsequently civilly committed in 1993, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4246(d). For twenty years he has remained held in a federal mental health facility and has never been tried or convicted of the charged crime. The only federal charge against him, one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm, was dismissed in 2006.
The Warden of the federal mental health facility where Ecker is currently housed has recommended that he be conditionally…
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