competency-to-stand-trial

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5042 Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry mental-health Question not identified.
24A1039 Mason Binion v. United States District of Columbia 2025-04-28 Presumed Complete competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-obligation defense-counsel-waiver harmless-error pate-v-robinson procedural-adequacy Question not identified.
24-6861 Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment competency-to-stand-trial detention-order inter-circuit-conflict mootness Did the Eleventh Circuit err and create an inter-circuit conflict by dismissing Mr. Alhindi's appeal as moot where, pursuant to United States v. Carri…
24-477 Thomas John Boukamp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-standard mental-capacity I. In Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960), this Court the Dusky standard require that the defendant be II. Does a defendant have a rational u…
23-7799 Esther Martin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-to-stand-trial counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings sixth-amendment The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the trial of incompetent persons, and the Sixth Amendment entitles criminal defen…
23-1044 Juan Balderas v. Texas Texas 2024-03-21 Denied abuse-of-writ brady-violation competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review Whether, in light of these circumstances, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal s' summary determination that Juan Balderas's subsequent petition failed …
23-5404 Grace Woodham v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-jurisdiction mental-health-treatment pretrial-detention Did either / both my appellate and trial counsel perform beneath the standard demanded by the US Constitution? Was this appeal moot?
21-6908 Jessie Flores v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP competence-to-stand-trial competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-defense mental-state-defense psychosis specific-intent substance-abuse willful-deliberate-and-premeditated-murder Does defense counsel unreasonably fail to investigate and present a mental state defense to a charge of willful, deliberate and premeditated murder wh…
20-5468 Corey Manning v. Michigan Michigan 2020-08-24 Denied IFP competency-hearing competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stages due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure right-to-be-present supreme-court-precedent trial-presence 1.) WHETHER DEFENDANT-APPELLANT WAS DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BE PRESENT AT ALL CRITICAL STAGES OF TRIAL WHERE HE WAS INTENTIONALLY NOT SUMMO…
19-7769 Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation If yourrepresenting yourself do you think I'm Competent to Stand trial or Sign a plea If you had Fecent Surgery of having Part of your Intestine remov…
19-6823 Michael Dean Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brain-dysfunction certificate-of-appealability competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness pate-v-robinson procedural-bar state-waiver Petitioner was sentenced to death at a trial at which he did not cooperate with counsel in preparing his defense, repeatedly disrupted proceedings, to…
19-6557 Steven Nygren v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency-to-stand-trial forensic-evaluation malingering material-evidence obstruction-of-justice rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3c1.1 u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 A defendant with a medically documented cognitive impairment, which defendant was engaged in rehabilitation, was progressing positively in said rehabi…
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…
19-5992 Demond Chatman v. Douglas Demoura First Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability competency competency-to-stand-trial due-process first-circuit first-circuit-court-of-appeals genuine-issue right-to-trial standing Did the First Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to grant certificate of appealability where, contrary to their stated denial, petitioner presen…