Compulsory pre-trial psychiatric examination is becoming more widespread every day. The current Walker case puts it into the spotlight and well that it does for it literally could involve every person in our Land. The sequence of events in the Walker case is almost incredible. After General Walker was apprehended by U. S. marshals, he was rushed to a mental prison. He was put in solitary confinement and ordered to undergo pre-trial psychiatric examination for a ninety-day period.