expert-assistance

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
23-6390 Jose Guadalupe Ramirez v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP adolescent-brain-development due-process expert-assistance indigent-defendant mandatory-life-sentence right-to-present-defense sentencing Does a trial court deprive an indigent defendant of due process and the right to present a defense by failing to appoint an adolescent brain developme…
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…
23A272 Jessie Dotson v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-09-28 Presumed Complete capital-post-conviction death-penalty due-process expert-assistance fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus Question not identified.
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,…
19-8792 John Hummel v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-06-23 Denied IFP 18-U.S.C.-3599 clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty discretionary-review expert-assistance expert-services legal-representation reasonably-necessary statutory-funding unusual-character-or-duration When the appointed attorney for a death-sentenced inmate shows that expert services have likely utility—and are of unusual character or duration—but c…