competency-evaluation

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24-6634 Robert Andrew Wolter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split competency-evaluation criminal-procedure speedy-trial-act statutory-interpretation transportation-delay When a criminal defendant is transported to another facility to undergo a competency evaluation, does the time between the date of the order for trans…
23-7731 In Re Jack Carpenter, III 2024-06-17 Denied IFP burden-of-proof civil-liberties competence competency-evaluation constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure legal-interpretation presumption-of-jurisdiction procedural-error \s Ot Wallens 2 Ns Nas sdickion usd oc Gilad one ck evidence of \asompatence? Moe Cevcyours LoedeSs oc Yne\neSs Yourchedk WED _O. co, Sous Qraekre « …
23-6993 Leon Akins v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-14 Denied IFP competency-evaluation criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process dusky-v-united-states judicial-review mental-competency record-evidence trial-standards DOES THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECISION CONFLICT WITH THIS COURTS DECISION IN DUSKY V. UNITED STATES, 362 US 402 (1960) AND DROPE V. MISSO…
23-6149 Gary Lynn Gatlin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4241-motion competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability mental-competency mental-illness standards-of-review I. SHOULD COURTS EVALUATE EVIDENCE SUPPORTING MOTIONS FOR COMPETENCY EVALUATIONS DIFFERENTLY WHEN THE CLAIMED BASIS FOR INCOMPETENCY IS INTELLECTUAL D…
21-6818 Arron Lawson v. Ohio Ohio 2022-01-11 Denied IFP 5th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-offenses competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment state-court-proceedings Does a state Court proceeding resulting in a sentence of death violate the Fifth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when t…
21-6547 Richard Lynn Long, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2021-12-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-health plea-agreement right-to-counsel Mr. Long asserts that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to notify the court of the contents of aneuropshychologica! report that found he w…
20-5265 Hazhar A. Sayed v. Colorado Colorado 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-evaluation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions post-arrest-silence right-to-remain-silent self-defense Whether the trial court violated Sayed's constitutional right to remain silent and reversibly erred when it allowed the government to question a DOC i…
19-6361 Gregory Alan McKown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights commitment competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-commitment liberty liberty-interest mathews-factors mathews-v-eldridge mental-health procedural-safeguards substantive-due-process I. Does mandatory, involuntary commitment of an incompetent defendant to the Bureau of Prisons for the sole purpose of evaluating whether he can attai…
19-6316 James Matthew Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability competency-evaluation competency-to-stand-trial evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-circuit DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AS TO WHETHER THE LOWER COURT; (1) ERRS DENYING SHELTON'S HABEAS CLAIM ALLEGING INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNS…
18-7662 Nolan Lewis v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion competency competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea judicial-discretion mental-competency ninth-circuit restitution restitution-hearing A. Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals applied the proper legal standard for determining whether the district court abused its discretion in fa…
18-7091 Steven Anthony Butler v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-18 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing competence competency-evaluation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation judicial-process judicial-review mental-competence mental-health mitigating-evidence procedural-fairness 1. When, in reviewing the two-part claim that trial counsel was ineffective both for failing to provide known, relevant information to mental health e…
18-6544 Robert Joe McNemar v. Ralph Terry, Acting Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment competency competency-evaluation criminal-defendant due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining sixth-amendment Does due process under the Constitution's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require a State trial court to make an EXPRESS independent competency determ…