No. 23-5039

Thomas E. Creech v. Tim Richardson, Warden

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2023-07-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Amici (1)IFP
Tags: capital-sentencing death-row eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel psychopathy sixth-amendment
Latest Conference: 2023-10-06
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether, for purposes of measuring claims arising from capital sentencings, evidence of or reference to psychopathy should be treated as potentially mitigating or as categorically aggravating?

2. Whether the Eighth Amendment is implicated by a prisoner's excessively long residence on a highly restrictive death row.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether evidence of or reference to psychopathy should be treated as potentially mitigating or as categorically aggravating in capital sentencings

Docket Entries

2023-10-10
Petition DENIED.
2023-09-14
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/6/2023.
2023-09-13
Reply of petitioner Thomas E. Creech filed. (Distributed)
2023-08-30
Brief of respondent Tim Richardson, Warden in opposition filed.
2023-08-04
2023-08-01
Motion to extend the time to file a response from August 4, 2023 to September 3, 2023, submitted to The Clerk.
2023-08-01
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including September 5, 2023.
2023-06-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 4, 2023)
2023-04-19
Application (22A917) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until July 6, 2023.
2023-04-17
Application (22A917) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 7, 2023 to July 6, 2023, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

National Disability Rights Network
David R. FineK&L Gates LLP, Amicus
Thomas Creech
Jonah Joshua HorwitzFederal Defender Services of ldaho, Petitioner
Tim Richardson, Warden
L. LaMont AndersonIdaho Attorney General's Office, Respondent