No. 24-6164

Tahina Corcoran, as next friend on behalf of Joseph E. Corcoran v. Ron Neal, Warden

Lower Court: Seventh Circuit
Docketed: 2024-12-17
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment due-process execution-standards incompetency-claim mental-competency state-court-review
Key Terms:
DueProcess HabeasCorpus Punishment Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. May a state court dispose of an evidentiarily-supported incompetency to be executed claim under Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), and Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 903 (2007), because the state court found the condemned competent 20 years ago under the Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960), and Rees v. Peyton, 384 U.S. 312 (1966)?

2. Does a state court violate the due process principles of Panetti when it relies on evidence to find the condemned competent without providing an adequate means for the condemned to submit psychiatric evidence contextualizing or rebutting that evidence?

3. Can the Seventh Circuit constrain this Court's holding in Brumfield v. Cain, 576 U.S. 305 (2015), which endorsed that a federal court assessing the weight a state court provided certain evidence may be properly made under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2)?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

May a state court dispose of an evidentiarily-supported incompetency to be executed claim under Ford v. Wainwright and Panetti v. Quarterman despite finding the condemned competent 20 years ago?

Docket Entries

2024-12-17
2024-12-17
Application (24A592) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to Justice Barrett.
2024-12-17
Brief of respondent Ron Neal in opposition filed.
2024-12-17
Reply of applicant Tahina Corcoran next friend for Joseph E. Corcoran filed.
2024-12-17
Petition DENIED.
2024-12-17
Application (24A592) referred to the Court.
2024-12-17
Application (24A592) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice Barrett and by her referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

Attorneys

Ron Neal
James Allen BartaOffice of the Indiana Attorney General, Respondent
Tahina Corcoran, next friend for Joseph E. Corcoran
Laurence Edward Komp — Petitioner