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Parties Involved:
Khalil Abu Rayyan
Appellant
United States of America
Appellee

Document Text:

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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.

 Case: 16-1579 Document: 27 Filed: 09/12/2016 Page: 1