NON-FINAL REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION

WALTER E. JOHNSON, Magistrate Judge.

This matter came before the Court regarding the competency of Defendant Demontra Sharod Lucear. (See Order of June 14, 2019 [245].) The most recent Forensic Evaluation of Mr. Lucear, conducted on February 28, 2019 by the Mental Health Department of the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, found him competent to stand trial. Moreover, the Acting Warden of that Center has certified that Mr. Lucear is able to understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings made against him and to assist properly in his own defense. Counsel for Mr. Lucear did not challenge the evaluation or certification at the hearing held on July 11, 2019 [248].

The undersigned thus REPORTS that there is no reasonable cause to believe that the defendant may presently be suffering from a mental disease or defect rendering him mentally incompetent to the extent that he is unable to understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings against him or to assist properly in his defense. See 18 U.S.C. § 4241(a). Therefore, the undersigned RECOMMENDS that the defendant be found competent and this case be set for trial at the convenience of the presiding District Judge.1

The Clerk is DIRECTED to docket UNDER SEAL the March 19, 2019 letters from the Bureau of Prisons to the Honorable Harold L. Murphy and to the Clerk of Court regarding Mr. Lucear as well as the February 28, 2019 Forensic Evaluation that accompanied those letters.

SO RECOMMENDED.