No. 18-8077

Donald Glenn Estes v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-02-21
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-confinement mental-competency mental-health-confinement prosecutorial-evidence right-to-remain-silent wainwright-v-greenfield
Latest Conference: 2019-04-12
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether this Court's Decisions in Wainwright v. Greenfield, 474 U.S. 284 (1996), and Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (1987), Allow a Prosecutor to Introduce Evidence Gained During Involuntary Confinement at a Mental Institution in Order to Restore Competency of that Defendant's Conduct and Insistence on Remaining Silent About the Charged Offenses?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether this Court's Decisions in Wainwright v. Greenfield, 474 U.S. 284 (1996), and Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (1987), Allow a Prosecutor to Introduce Evidence Gained During Involuntary Confinement at a Mental Institution in Order to Restore Competency of that Defendant's Conduct and Insistence on Remaining Silent About the Charged Offenses?

Docket Entries

2019-04-15
Petition DENIED.
2019-03-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/12/2019.
2019-03-25
Waiver of right of respondent Barker to respond filed.
Main Document
2019-02-19
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 25, 2019)
Petition

Attorneys

Barker
Jeffrey Morgan Conner — Office of the Attorney General of the State of Nevada, Respondent
Donald Glenn Estes
Jason F Carr — Federal Public Defenders Office, Petitioner