| 25-5968 |
Mark Wheeler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process involuntary-commitment mental-competency |
1. Does the mandatory commitment of a permanently incompetent defendant solely to assess the possibility of restoring competency violate due process? |
| 25-5812 |
Michael Barreto v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure defendant-rights judicial-discretion mental-competency statutory-interpretation |
If a district court orders a competency examination under § 4241(b) based upon reasonable cause to question a defendant's competency, is it mandatory … |
| 24-6173 |
James Louis Lange, II v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-hearing court-of-criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency trial-court |
Did the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals err in denying Applicant's contention that the trial court did not conduct a proper competency inquiry because… |
| 24-6164 |
Tahina Corcoran, as next friend on behalf of Joseph E. Corcoran v. Ron Neal, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process execution-standards incompetency-claim mental-competency state-court-review |
1. May a state court dispose of an evidentiarily-supported incompetency to be executed claim under Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), and Panett… |
| 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… |
| 23-6756 |
Kenneth J. Coleman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency-hearing confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency pate-v-robinson plea-agreement |
1). Is the petitioner constitutionally entitled to a hearing upon the issue of his competency to stand trial.
Was the petitioner tried, convicted and… |
| 23-6721 |
Jerry Scott Heidler v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-conflict-of-interest certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan mental-competency mental-incompetence procedural-dismissal trial-counsel |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit imposed an erroneously high standard when it denied a COA to address any or all of the above claims and, if so, whether t… |
| 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… |
| 23-6145 |
Daniel E. Salley v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process internal-revenue-service mental-competency mental-health-defense property-rights property-seizure statute-of-limitations tax-law treasury-offset-program |
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| 23-5628 |
Richard C. Duerson, as Next Friend of Jennifer McFarland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency-standard constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection mental-capacity mental-competency next-friend next-friend-petition physical-competency standing |
What Constitutional Standards should be applied when a judge is tasked with determining the competency of a defendant with known physical and mental a… |
| 23-234 |
Nicholas Crystal v. Calvin Johnson, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-deficiency ninth-circuit post-conviction |
Did the Ninth Circuit, in a post-conviction appeal by a sentenced Nevada State prisoner, commit reversible error in its pro forma, non-reasoned blanke… |
| 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… |
| 23-5244 |
Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 capital-punishment competency-to-be-executed death-penalty delusional-beliefs habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness panetti-standard state-court-review |
When a panel has determined that 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2) has been satisfied and an appeal and concordant stay are necessary, does an en banc court have a… |
| 23-5243 |
Johnny Johnson v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-hearing ford-v-wainwright habeas-corpus mental-competency panetti-v-quarterman procedural-fairness |
1. Whether a report from a qualified neuropsychiatrist that a condemned prisoner is incompetent for execution that is not contradicted by any qualifie… |
| 23-5205 |
Steven Lesane v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion criminal-procedure district-court factual-basis guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel mental-competency motion-to-withdraw plea-bargaining statutory-interpretation |
I. Whether the District Court abused its discretion when it
denied appellant's motion to withdraw his guilty plea
where 1) there was an insufficient… |
| 22-7785 |
Christopher Lewis Tucker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process forcible-medication involuntary-medication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-health pretrial-custody pretrial-detention sell-standard |
Whether a district court may order forcible medication under Sell v. United States when (1) record evidence shows that the government has already trie… |
| 22-1070 |
Stanford James Stelle, III v. California |
California |
2023-05-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
competency competency-hearing criminal-defendant criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-competency mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson successive-review |
Does California's heightened standard for a successive competency hearing violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 22-7084 |
Christopher Daniel Lutker v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2023-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process guilty-plea involuntary-confession knowingly-voluntarily mental-competency plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing trial-court-discretion |
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A fiESrACOM uMTL… |
| 22-6960 |
James Jonathan Mitchell v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6882 |
David Byron Russ v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus mental-competency review-claim state-court state-courts substantive-incompetency |
1. Whether a state court may refuse to review a capital defendant's claim of substantive incompetency? |
| 22-727 |
Izzac Christopher Weister v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
competency-law constitutional-vagueness criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency psychiatric-custody statutory-interpretation vagueness violence violence-definition west-virginia |
1. Izzac Weister was criminally charged with sexual offenses as a result of electronic messages that he sent to his half sister. The trial court found… |
| 22-5872 |
In Re Benjamin Cole |
|
2022-10-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness original-jurisdiction |
Whether the State of Oklahoma may execute Benjamin Cole while he is incompetent to be executed, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments t… |
| 22-5851 |
Siaosi Vanisi v. William Reubart, Acting Warden |
Nevada |
2022-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency criminal-procedure double-jeopardy gross-negligence intent-requirement mental-competency oregon-v-kennedy self-representation |
1. Does gross negligence on the part of the State satisfy the intent
requirement as set forth in Oregon v. Kennedy, 456 U.S. 667 (1982) so that
double… |
| 22-5244 |
Charles M. Torrence v. Hazel Peterson, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-right criminal-procedure critical-stage due-process legal-representation mental-competency right-to-counsel sixth-amendment statewide-importance |
Whether it is of statewide, and even nationwide importance, ONE:
for the United States Supreme Court to declare definitively
whether a mental compete… |
| 22-5216 |
Ray Salazar v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation mental-competency sixth-amendment |
1. The question is: Did al Counsel ably Commabonal chan Assistance of Counsel Undertee SAM Htodeiont in tveir Guraveess of SelaZavs Mortal Heal isues … |
| 21-7829 |
Clarence Wayne Dixon v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment competency-to-be-executed eighth-amendment execution-standard mental-competency mental-illness non-bizarre-delusions panetti-precedent panetti-v-quarterman schizophrenia |
(1) Does Panetti v. Quarterman, 551 U.S. 930 (2007) foreclose a schizophrenic prisoner from demonstrating that non-bizarre delusions obstruct his rati… |
| 21-7570 |
Vander Clayborne v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-04-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea juvenile-justice mental-capacity mental-competency miller-v-alabama parole sentencing |
In every jurisdiction of the United States - both federal and State - there is a balancing test for deciding whether a court's decision to deny a Crim… |
| 21-7225 |
Milton Lattimore v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial guilty-plea judicial-discretion mental-competency special-conditions trial-fitness |
Whether a person who is fit to stand trial only with special conditions is denied due process when the trial court accepts a guilty plea entered witho… |
| 21-7015 |
Edward T. James v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-01-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetency incompetency-claim mental-competency substantive-claim substantive-review |
1. Whether a court may refuse to review a capital defendant's substantive incompetency claim? |
| 21-6711 |
Darius Smith v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency due-process effective-assistance guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disabilities intellectual-disability mental-competency mental-illness plea-proceeding sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process was violated where the record demonstrated that he had mental illness and intellectual di… |
| 21-6372 |
James Michael Bartley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights competency-proceeding constitutional-challenge due-process gun-rights judicial-review mental-competency mental-illness right-to-bear-arms second-amendment standing |
Whether the government may deny a law-abiding citizen their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment based solely on a competency proceeding that… |
| 21-6241 |
Eric J. Turner v. Richard L. Broch |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-rules-of-evidence habeas-corpus legal-competency mental-competency schizophrenia |
Whether the trial court failed to order a determination of the defendant's schizophrenia?
Whether a conviction that violates due process happened whi… |
| 21-6024 |
Dudley Allen Hicks v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-competence criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
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| 21-5892 |
Lori Anna Massey v. Pierce County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process legal-incompetency mental-competency mental-incapacity physical-disability statute-of-limitations time-extension tolling |
1. Should no time limit apply?
R.C.W. 4.16.190 If a person entitled to bring an action against a sheriff or other officer be at the time the cause of … |
| 21-5252 |
Jason Robert Twardzik v. North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process grand-jury habeas-corpus mental-competency pretrial-detention state-harassment |
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| 20-8442 |
Luckner Pierre v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process language-assistance language-barrier mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-due-process standing waiver-of-rights |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeal for the 11th Circuit denied the Petitioner his Procedural Due Process Right and access to Court when it declined to g… |
| 20-8135 |
Gregg McNamara v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-impairment sixth-amendment |
1) Under the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and the cause of the action against a
person, can a person convicted while suffering from sever… |
| 20-7711 |
Scott Dwayne Chatman v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process incompetency incompetent-defendant iowa-court-of-appeals iowa-courts judicial-review mental-competency |
I. DID THE IOWA COURT OF APPEALS DENY
AN INCOMPETENT DEFENDANT DUE
PROCESS?
II. DID THE IOWA COURT OF APPEALS AND
IOWA SUPREME COURT CONVICT AN
I… |
| 20-7238 |
Alberto Julio Garcia v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process dusky-standard eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency pretrial-proceedings restorative-treatment |
Does Mississippi's "presumption of competency" violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or the Eighth Amendment, when that presumption is expanded to all… |
| 20-7209 |
In Re Rodolfo A. Lopez, Jr. |
|
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency speedy-trial |
1. IS MR. LOPEZ HELD UNLAWFULM IN ACCORDADCE WITH THE
SIXTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION
AND THE INTERSTATE AGREEMENT ON DETAIWERS? |
| 20-7212 |
Kareem Davenport v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-adequacy defendant-fitness due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency state-statute trial-court |
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| 20-6916 |
Stephen M. Patterson, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights due-process edwards-standard indiana-v-edwards mental-competency self-representation sixth-amendment waiver-of-counsel |
1. Whether Edwards' heightened competency standards apply when a court grants a borderline competent and mentally ill defendant's request to represent… |
| 20-6679 |
Larry Dortley v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-12-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights competency criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency trial-rights |
Petitioner, Larry Dortley, was declared incompetent to proceed to trial by the Third Judicial Circuit Court, Columbia County, Florida, and was involun… |
| 20-6410 |
Fareed Sepehry-Fard v. Court of Appeal of California, Sixth Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2020-11-24 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights conspiracy due-process judicial-misconduct legal-conspiracy mental-competency money-laundering national-security power-of-attorney standing |
1) whether this court should continue to allow lower courts to be used by international drug cartels, pedophiles, sex and human traffickers and MS 13 … |
| 20-701 |
James Calvert v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-11-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (6) |
capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment mental-competency right-to-counsel structural-error |
1. Whether the Constitution prevents a State from allowing a defendant to represent himself in a capital case when the defendant is mentally competent… |
| 20-6324 |
Michael Christopher Laird v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process judicial-review mental-competency mental-deficiencies post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings procedural-fairness real-and-substantial-doubt |
WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS BECAUSE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADDRESS, DURING POST-CONVICTION PROCEEDINGS, PETITI… |
| 20-6253 |
Sealed Appellant v. Sealed Appellee |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-4142 civil-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process federal-detention judicial-order mental-competency statutory-custody |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari to determine whether continued custody under 18 U.S.C. § 4142 for almost four months beyond the expiration … |
| 20-5917 |
Eric Malmstrom v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure competency criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process embassy-communication judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect standing sua-sponte |
Whether the district court abused its discretion when it failed to sua sponte order a competency evaluation. The facts of Petitioner's crime, standing… |
| 20-5616 |
Zachary Knotts v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bench-trial competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process indictment-disposition mental-competency proof-standard trial-jurisdiction |
If a defendant is indicted and found not competent to stand trial, is the court obligated to write a final order disposing of the case when the court … |
| 19-8264 |
Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing |
I. Mental Incompetency
The law states that no person with mental diseare or defect shall be sentenced
for commission of an offence as long as such inc… |
| 19-8247 |
John Wilson v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-04-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process judicial-procedure mental-competency self-representation sixth-amendment trial-court trial-court-discretion |
WHETHER THE TRIAL COURT WAS OBLIGATED
TO DETERMINE THE MENTAL COMPETENCY OF
A DEFENDANT BEFORE GRANTING HIM THE
RIGHT TO REPRESENT HIMSELF AT TRIAL IF… |
| 19-7840 |
Victor Dewayne Jones v. Joe Errington |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance judicial-review mental-competency mental-evaluation post-conviction psychiatric-evaluation public-defender sentencing sentencing-petition trial-counsel |
whather Petitioner was denied his right to bue Process of Law
where the pike counts Circuit court convicted Petitioner with out a Mental
Evaluation an… |
| 19-7810 |
Dale W. Eaton v. Mike Pacheco, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-02-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 cullen-v-pinholster federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency new-evidence state-court-adjudication strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. WHETHER A STATE COURT HAS ADJUDICATED THE PERFORMANCE PRONG OF A STRICKLAND V. WASHINGTON CLAIM ON THE MERITS WITHIN THE MEANING OF 28 U.S.C. § 225… |
| 19-7303 |
Michael W. Smith v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining sexually-violent-person sixth-amendment |
Does the Petitioner have a Legal right by the U.S. Constitution and the Illinois Constitution, State law to be admonished about indefinite involuntary… |
| 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… |
| 19-6729 |
Cedric Gray v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion legal-standard mental-competency miranda-rights procedural-error sentencing suppression-hearing trial-rights |
1. Did the District Court violate my Fifth Amendment rights to remain silent?
2. Could the District Court use my 19% year old priors as proof of show… |
| 19-6460 |
Daniel Paul Copple v. Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-standards discovery discovery-limitations dismissal-standards due-process evidence-preservation evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus institutional-mental-health-records judicial-discretion mental-competency pro-se-defendant state-records |
I.
When a defendant claims mental impairments had prevented him from timely filing his habeas petition, under Schrire v. Landrigan, should the distric… |
| 19-6422 |
Calvin Dunell Burns v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal appellate-review civil-rights competency constitutional-violations due-process evidence legal-procedure mental-competency mental-health standing trial-counsel trial-procedure |
1). why didn't the First District Court oF Appeals,
State of Florida, rule fairly in the Petitioner's Direct Appeal
on the merits of the issues in the… |
| 19-5839 |
Randall Wayne Mays v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty delusions due-process eighth-amendment ford-hearing junk-science lay-stereotypes mental-competency mental-illness panetti-v-quarterman |
1. May a state court rely on junk science and lay stereotypes of the severely mentally ill to adjudicate a Ford claim ?
2. If an inmate acknowledges … |
| 19-5598 |
Wade Hampton Bigelow, aka Ray Ford Gore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competence-to-stand-trial competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-health mental-health-records psychiatric-evaluation |
1. Whether the District Court Failed To Rule consistent with the Insanity Defense Reform Act (IDRA) (18 U.S.C. § 17) by failing to make a differentiat… |
| 19-5319 |
William J. Barnes Jr. v. New York |
New York |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review competency constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insanity-defense mental-capacity mental-competency structural-error trial-procedure |
ONE
Having Found That Significant Grounds Existed to
Believe That The Defendant Was an Incapacitated Person,
Did The County Court Deprive The Petitio… |
| 19-87 |
Jerome Burgess v. Phil Hall, Warden |
Georgia |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-counsel brady-v-maryland brady-violation criminal-appeal exculpatory-evidence georgia-supreme-court ineffective-assistance mental-competency plea-bargaining strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
1. Did the Georgia Supreme Court err in failing to find
that Petitioner's appellate counsel provided ineffective
assistance by failing to argue on a… |
| 19-5171 |
Victor Hugo Saldano v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)IFP |
biased-jury buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim death-penalty due-process future-dangerousness mental-competency racial-bias vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
At M r. Sal daño's first death penalty trial, in 1996, a n expert for th e State of
Texas testified that Mr. Sa ldaño wa s more likely to present a fu… |
| 18-9497 |
Lloyd E. Austin, IV v. Bridgitte Amsberry |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-bargaining post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
why petitioner the except a stipulated facks would trial plea agreement to the Worst per. Case scenerio without right trying ot trirl o he was in his … |
| 18-9255 |
Santosh Ram v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-plea mental-competency mental-disease-defect plea-agreement plea-bargaining search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines |
Whether there was violation of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order the mental competency evaluation and/or conduct mental co… |
| 18-8984 |
Nathan Caetano v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-incompetence ninth-circuit-precedent ninth-circuit-test retrospective-competency-determination retrospective-determination state-action structural-error |
Is AeDpA (i)(B) and ts determination actvally a retrospective
determination where mental incompetence is the impediment?
Competency
DOES AEDPACISCB):… |
| 18-8473 |
Eric Laquinne Brown, aka Eric L. Brown, aka Eric Brown v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea mental-competency mental-evaluation mental-health mississippi-uniform-rule-9.06 plea-bargaining procedural-bars procedural-due-process standing |
1. Did Brown have a Constitutional right to have a competency hearing before he plead guilty, where Brown was granted two (2) court orders for a menta… |
| 18-8233 |
Calvin J. Reid v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§2255-motion 18-usc-4241 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competency mental-illness right-to-counsel standards-of-review |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT HAS ENTERED A DECISION IN CONFLICT WITH THE DECISION OF ANOTHER UNITED STATES COURT O… |
| 18-8077 |
Donald Glenn Estes v. Renee Baker, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary-confinement mental-competency mental-health-confinement prosecutorial-evidence right-to-remain-silent wainwright-v-greenfield |
1. Whether this Court's Decisions in Wainwright v. Greenfield, 474 U.S. 284 (1996), and Buchanan v. Kentucky, 483 U.S. 402 (1987), Allow a Prosecutor … |
| 18-7905 |
Christopher A. Hall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process indiana-v-edwards medical-condition medical-resuscitation medication mental-competency pro-se-representation self-representation |
"Does a higher standard exist for measuring competency to represent oneself at trial, than for competency to stand trial, in a case wherein a criminal… |
| 18-7876 |
Jordie L. Callahan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency mental-evaluation sixth-amendment |
Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is Entitled to a Competency Hearing or Mental Evaluation to Determine if the Defendant is in Fact Capable of As… |
| 18-7690 |
Thomas Phillip Bell v. Kiah Demarias Leigh, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection judicial-review mental-competency record-correction sentencing standing |
I am Thomas Phillip Bell and I would like to know how serious is the court compaired to the Federal Court's and does the Fact matter about a Case a ot… |
| 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… |
| 18-7558 |
Brandon Lamar Hawkins v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-competency criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance judicial-procedure mental-competency mental-health resentencing sentencing trial-court trial-court-discretion |
WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO DISCHARGE, NEW TRIAL, AND/OR RESENTENCING BASED ON THE TRIAL COURT FAILING TO CONDUCT A COMPETENCY HEARING AFTER IT … |
| 18-6329 |
Adan Sandoval Dominguez v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-standard constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process factual-understanding judicial-standard major-depressive-disorder mental-competency mental-health rational-understanding standing trial-rights |
Did defendant meet the competency requirement to stand trial set forth in Godinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (1993), which states a defendant must have "s… |
| 18-6081 |
Manuel Enrique Camacho v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency psychiatric-evaluation psychiatric-report |
I. Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to determine if Mr. Camacho
was competent to enter a guilty plea in light of a psychiatric report… |
| 18-5857 |
Jeffrey Latimore v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining right-to-counsel state-attorney-office state-court state-courts trial-court |
WHETHER TRIAL COURT ABUSED THEIR AUTHORITY BY DENYING PETITIONER LATIMORE A COMPETENCY HEARING BEFORE A PLEA AGREEMENT
WHETHER THE STATE ATTORNEY OFF… |
| 18-5787 |
Danyale Sharron Tubbs v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency competency-defense due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency mental-illness plain-error procedural-default sentencing sentencing-error strickland-standard |
WAS MICHIGAN'S APPLICATION OF STRICKLAND V WASHINGTON UNREASONABLE WHERE DEFENSE COUNSEL FAILED TO INVESTIGATE AND PRESNT A COMPETENCY DEFENSE IN LIGH… |
| 18-5481 |
John K. D. Watson v. Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
' 'colloquy" ' 'due-process" ' 'evidentiary-review' ' 'guilty-plea" ' 'ineffective-assistance-of-counsel" ' 'learning-disability" civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process mental-competency plea-bargaining sentencing |
1)IN HIS CASE, THE GUILTY PLEA WAS NOT ONLY INCOMPREHENSIVE, BUT COERCE AND MADE THROUGH DURESS BY RELYING ON GROSSLY MISINFORMATION BY COUNSEL. I WOU… |
| 18-5295 |
Miguel Pedraza v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2253 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process eleventh-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction mental-competency procedural-default standard-of-review |
THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED PETITIONER'S CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY (COA) APPLICATION BASED ON … |
| 25A577 |
Richard Barry Randolph v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment irreparable-harm mental-competency method-of-execution |
Question not identified. |