United States v. Thamin Shawar

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “plain meaning” of phrase “shall commit” is “that once a defendant is found incompetent to stand trial, a district court has no discretion in whether or not to commit him”
• concluding that Congress intended mandatory commitment to the Attorney General
• noting that the \likelihood of recovery is not something to be considered by the district court in deciding whether to commit the defendant for the evaluation period\
• noting that the “likelihood of recovery is not something to be considered by the district court in deciding whether to commit the defendant for the evaluation period”
• “[O]nce a defendant is found incompetent to stand trial, a district judge has no discretion in whether or not to commit him.”
• “[T]he statutory scheme established by Congress clearly mandates that a defendant found to be incompetent be placed in a mental hospital for observation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).