UNITED STATES of AMERICA v. Khalil Abu Rayyan

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File Name: 16a0528n.06
CASE NO. 16-1579
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT
UNITED STATES of AMERICA,
Plaintiff-Appellee,
v.
KHALIL ABU RAYYAN,
Defendant-Appellant.
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ON APPEAL FROM THE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT
COURT FOR THE EASTERN
DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
OPINION
Before: MERRITT, BATCHELDER, and ROGERS, Circuit Judges.
ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge. Khalil Abu Rayyan was indicted on two
felony offenses and is in federal custody, awaiting trial. The government moved for a
competency evaluation, which the district court granted over Rayyan’s objection. Rayyan
moved the district court to reconsider, moved the district court to stay the order pending appeal,
and moved this court to stay the order upon filing this appeal. All those motions were denied.
Rayyan brought this interlocutory appeal pursuant to the collateral-order doctrine to
challenge his particular “loss of liberty” corresponding to the court-ordered and involuntary
commitment for the psychiatric evaluation, citing United States v. Davis, 93 F.3d 1286, 1289
(6th Cir. 1996), among others. In the meantime, both the psychiatric evaluation and the
associated involuntary commitment/detention were completed. Consequently, the government
has moved to dismiss this interlocutory appeal as moot, because we can no longer grant relief
that would satisfy Rayyan’s motion or the collateral-order doctrine. See Rosales-Garcia v.
Holland, 322 F.3d 386, 394 (6th Cir. 2003); Murphy v. Hunt, 455 U.S. 478, 481-82 (1982).
The government’s motion is granted. This appeal is DISMISSED.

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