fetal-alcohol-syndrome

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6336 Joshua J. Lewandowski v. Jefferey Perkins, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center Ninth Circuit 2025-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights effective-assistance-counsel fetal-alcohol-syndrome guilty-plea mental-disability sixth-amendment A. Does the Sixth Amendment to the United State Constitution require Defense Counsel to ensure A mentally disabled defendants guilty plea tod of Congr…
23A276 Michael Duane Zack v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process executive-clemency fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-disability Question not identified.
23-5653 Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida Florida 2023-09-26 Denied IFP atkins-exemption atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome fourteenth-amendment intellectual-developmental-disorder medical-consensus witherspoon-v-illinois 1. In light of the medical community's recent consensus that Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is not only functionally similar to Intellectual Developmental Dis…
23A262 Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida Florida 2023-09-26 Denied atkins-exemption death-penalty eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-developmental-disability unanimous-jury-requirement Question not identified.
20-6310 Dean Phillip Carter v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254d1 attorney-client-conflict due-process fetal-alcohol-syndrome fundamental-rights habeas-corpus holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington These capital habeas cases arise from petitioner-appellant Dean Phillip Carter's 1989 Los Angeles County death judgment and his 1991 San Diego County …
18-1495 Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Charles Christopher Williams Fourth Circuit 2019-05-31 Denied aedpa aedpa-review aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence double-edged-sword fetal-alcohol-syndrome future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Is a state court objectively unreasonable, for purposes of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1), when it concludes that a capital defendant was not prejudiced by hi…
24A1077 Benjamin Ritchie v. Indiana Indiana Denied fetal-alcohol-syndrome habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan procedural-bar successive-postconviction-petition Question not identified.