No. 24A956

Mikal Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections

Lower Court: South Carolina
Docketed: N/A
Status: Denied
Type: A
Tags: capital-punishment childhood-trauma ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment strickland-standard
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question not identified.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Sixth Amendment requires capital trial counsel to investigate and present available mitigating evidence regarding a defendant's childhood trauma and prior confinement history, and whether the failure to do so constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington and Wiggins v. Smith

Docket Entries

2025-04-11
Application (24A956) referred to the Court.
2025-04-11
Application (24A956) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
2025-04-07
Application (24A956) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to The Chief Justice.

Attorneys

Mikal Mahdi
David Charles WeissCapital Habeas Unit for the Fourth Circuit, Petitioner