United States v. Margaret Knape Davis

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that mental illness in and of itself does not equate with the incompetency to stand trial
• noting that district court must have \ `reasonable cause to believe' the defendant [is] incompetent\
• stating that “[a]n order of commitment for psychiatric examination easily satisfies the requirements of the collateral order doctrine”
• stating an “order of commitment for psychiatric examination easily satisfies the requirements of the collateral order doctrine”
• noting it presents “serious — and as yet undecided — constitutional questions”
• “Although there is some suggestion in the record that the defendant is currently under psychiatric care, even if she were mentally ill, it does not follow that because a person is mentally ill he is not competent to stand trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).