No. 18-8196

Larry R. Tart v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-02-28
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medication medication-consent mental-health pretrial-detention solitary-confinement
Latest Conference: 2019-04-26
Question Presented (from Petition)

Where in pre trial confinement Petitioner was unknowingly
admnistered3 three different mental health psychologica
"twenty nine
medication's and not his correct
year
preseribed anti depressant medication as requested by
Petitioner, and arresting oflicer, and placed in solitary
confinement for the first 's"five or 6" manths until he
became incampetent to understand his situation or his case
and this type of psycholgical torture continued for "
a guilty plen was involun tacally
sixteen months until
from him. or his
coerced
death occurred, not a
Eighth Amendment itin phibiting crl and
unusual punishment?

(a) In a total of 6" sixteen months, in a capital
case
where ones mental state of mind is at issue, why wasn't
Petitioner ever talen for any State Frensic
Mental He
Evaluation's as the law requires

(b) Why was a 2005
Daymark
Behavioral Health Report us
in a 2009 capital case to replace crrect forensic
2c
non-evaluations

Is the Court aware that by
(C)
Petitioner consuming
th
illod him in the jilby giving etitiner yedibetie
with gloucase sugar levels reaching
TCD. "Cama stages
Would Petitioner had died in a Forsyth
(2)1
cell:alope" be bi

Eileen
Vann Nixon, in do13, or Jenni fer
inmate
Dino
Lamont Coley,
May
26
2o17, had Petitioner not involuntarally
the
accepted
that he would
had he not dere
something he wouldit have
mihd.

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Petitioner,hor
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intention's?

and the Urits
Is not a 18'eigtteen
day, ar 400 hour
delay, in
the
Judge
contaeting attorney's
Couct, or Writ

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Where the petitioner was unknowingly administered multiple mental health medications while in pre-trial confinement, resulting in incompetence to understand his case, and subjected to psychological torture leading to his death

Docket Entries

2019-07-15
Rehearing DENIED.
2019-06-20
DISTRIBUTED.
2019-05-16
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2019-04-29
Petition DENIED.
2019-04-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019.
2018-12-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due April 1, 2019)

Attorneys

Larry R. Tart
Larry R. Tart — Petitioner