| 25-6587 |
Jett Garriott Adams v. Dan Shannon, Director, Wyoming Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
ake-v-oklahoma harmless-error-analysis indigent-defendant psychiatric-assistance sanity-defense sixth-amendment |
1. When this Court held in Ake v. Oklahoma that an indigent defendant must make a threshold showing that their sanity would be a significant factor at… |
| 23-7138 |
Luis Alexis Briceno v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance federal-due-process indigent-defendants indigent-defense judicial-review procedural-fairness tennessee-court-of-appeals |
Whether Tennessee's procedure for denying indigent defendants funding for expert assistance at trial violates due process because a trial court's orde… |
| 23-6174 |
Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake-v-oklahoma collateral-proceedings constitutional-claims due-process expert-assistance ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan right-to-counsel state-prisoners |
1. Does a prisoner have a right to effective counsel in collateral proceedings that provide the first occasion to raise a claim of ineffective assista… |
| 23-5890 |
Jerry Smith v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment capital-trials due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendants indigent-defense jury-selection mitigation-experts racial-discrimination |
Whether Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), and the Fourteenth Amendment's due process guarantee of fundamental fairness require courts to provide fu… |
| 23-5393 |
Shaun N. Taylor v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ake-v-oklahoma criminal-procedure due-process expert-appointment expert-witness fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant insanity-expert mental-competency mental-health right-to-counsel |
I. Do this Court's decisions in Ake v. Oklahoma and McWilliams v. Dunn require the appointment of a second insanity expert for an indigent defendant w… |
| 22-7608 |
Phillip L. Horrell v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process mental-illness plea-bargaining plea-hearing sanity-examination supervisory-power |
1. Whether the plea of guilty but mentally ill in this case violated due process, due to no sanity examination conducted - or, alternatively, due to t… |
| 22-6397 |
Alex Daniel v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ake-v-oklahoma appointed-counsel britt-v-north-carolina due-process fundamental-fairness griffin-v-illinois indigent-defendant self-representation sixth-amendment |
In Farretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806, 833-34 (1975), this Court recognized that the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees cr… |
| 22-6217 |
Steven Wayne Keefe v. Montana |
Montana |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adequate-defense ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mental-health mental-health-expert miller-v-alabama sentencing |
This petition presents the following question: whether the "basic tools of an adequate defense" include expert assistance in "evaluation, preparation,… |
| 22-5442 |
Powell Jones, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake-v-oklahoma certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process due-process-expert expert-witness fifth-circuit-appeal ineffective-assistance standing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
I. Did the panel of the Fifth Circuit err by deciding the merit of an appeal not properly before the Court to justify the denial of a certificate of a… |
| 21-5225 |
Raymond Lumsden v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake-v-oklahoma dna-evidence dna-expert due-process expert-witness-fees fair-trial indigent-funds ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
1. Did the trial court deny Petitioner a fair trial by refusing
indigent funds for a DNA expert to assist the defense and
testify at trial under Ake… |
| 19-871 |
Raheem Chabezz Johnson v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden |
Virginia |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
ake-v-oklahoma due-process indigent-defendant mcwilliams-v-dunn mental-health mental-health-expert sentencing sentencing-phase |
Whether an indigent defendant who seeks the appointment of a mental conditions expert to assist in the sentencing phase of his trial is denied due pro… |
| 18-8682 |
Sean Carter v. Wanza Jackson-Mitchell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake-v-oklahoma cullen-v-pinholster due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-habeas-proceedings fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage organic-brain-impairment state-court-proceedings state-court-review |
The evidence in the state court record suggested that Sean Carter suffers from organic brain damage. Carter's trial attorneys performed deficiently, t… |
| 18-8295 |
Raymond Lumsden v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
ake ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cumulative-error-doctrine dna-expert due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
Did the Court of Appeals commit err by affirming the trialcourt's erroneous denial of additional funds for the defenses DNA Expert to testify at trial… |
| 18-7774 |
Cecil Boyett v. Dwayne Santistevan, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
ake-v-oklahoma circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-error due-process federal-review gerstien-v-pugh habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel petition-denial procedural-due-process sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington |
I
WHETHER PETITIONER BOYETT WAS DENIED EFFECTINEASSISTANCE OF
COUNSEL UNDER THE SIXTA AMENDMENT BECAUSE THE CNRLUIT OPINION CONFLICTS WITH CLEARLY EST… |
| 18-7201 |
Mark Isaac Snarr v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 ake-v-oklahoma appellate-review ayestas-v-davis capital-case capital-defendant circuit-split due-process expert-services federal-funding fifth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fifth Circuit disregarded this Court's precedent when it required petitioner to show that an expert was "critical" to his case before fund… |
| 24A1143 |
Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
|
Denied |
|
ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment due-process mcwilliams-v-dunn mental-health-expert sixth-amendment |
Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court's refusal to apply this Court's precedent in McWilliams v. Dunn, 582 U.S. 183 (2017), which clarified that Ake v… |