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25-6305 Anthony Darrell Heath v. Kathy Brittain, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Frackville, et al. Third Circuit 2025-12-05 Pending IFP constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health miranda-rights 1. Was Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966) decided for that specific class of persons "not mentally ill" that is…
25A649 Denzel Chandler v. Chadwick Dotson, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2025-12-03 Application constitutional-right equitable-tolling extraordinary-circumstance habeas-corpus mental-health statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25A635 Robert Keaton v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-02 Application equitable-tolling extraordinary-relief federal-prisoner habeas-corpus mental-health suicide-attempt Question not identified.
25A488 Philip J. Seiflein v. Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Federal Circuit 2025-10-29 Application disability-claims due-process mental-health pro-se va-proceedings veterans-benefits Question not identified.
25-493 M. Patricia Cantu, et vir v. Austin Police Department, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-10-22 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health reasonable-accommodations use-of-force 1. Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act is violated when law enforcement officers fail to provide reasonable accommodations to a su…
25-5320 Heon Jong Yoo v. Brian Barker, et al. Third Circuit 2025-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction law-enforcement mental-health Question not identified.
25A127 Bill Elder, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith Tenth Circuit 2025-07-30 Presumed Complete civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-care law-enforcement mental-health tenth-circuit Question not identified.
25-5167 Monique C. Wallace v. Cedar Hill Dental District of Columbia 2025-07-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP compensation evidence justice legal-action mental-health service ftx'ift carfees for t-egoi! acfeons ctrtd is f-elevarff to -f/iis case- (rw +o teiwj i<pv and abandoned tjf rtfe-foiwr fefefefe Kmv /to-Hiiw; about de…
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.
24-7519 Frederick S. Koger v. Charles E. Kleidon, et al. Seventh Circuit 2025-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP dismissal judicial-procedure mental-health perjury police-misconduct statute-of-limitations I. DID MY POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER MENTAL CONDITION PLAY A ROLL IN GETTING MY CASE DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, ALONG WITH THE JUDICIARY FAILING TO…
24-7446 Telly Royster v. Joseph Terra, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. Third Circuit 2025-06-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health sixth-amendment Whether the failure to consider trial counsel's mental health issues in evaluating the effectiveness of counsel constitutes a violation of the Sixth A…
24-7117 Jeffrey Hutchinson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-05-01 Denied IFP competency-to-execute death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment mental-health panetti-standard 1. Does a finding of competency because a petitioner has a "rational understanding of the fact of his pending execution and the reason for it[,]" sole…
24-7079 Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson v. Florida Florida 2025-04-27 Denied Amici (1)IFP combat-trauma constitutional-law death-penalty mental-health scientific-evidence veterans-rights 1. Given that "[o]ur Nation has a long tradition of according leniency to veterans in recognition of their service, especially for those who fought on…
24-7012 Carla McCray v. Miami Dade County Public Schools, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-04-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP employment-law federal-statute fmla medical-leave mental-health uniform-standard Whether the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601, a federal statute intended for the entire national citizenry, should have one uniform …
24-837 Anne Francisco, et al. v. Jason England, et al. Eighth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied Response Waived corrections-staff deliberate-indifference eighth-amendment mental-health qualified-immunity suicide-watch The Eighth Amendment prohibits prison guards from intentionally denying or delaying access to medical care. Respondents failed to immediately start su…
24-6021 Samuel Boima v. United States Second Circuit 2024-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-competency due-process governmental-interests involuntary-medication mental-health trial-fairness How should district courts decide whether a crime is "serious" within the meaning of Sell?
24A477 James R. Turner, III v. Edward Rapp Second Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete in-forma-pauperis mental-health petition pro-se supreme-court time-extension Question not identified.
24-5680 P. H., Mother v. Cumberland County Children and Youth Services, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-health parental-rights state-court-action Was the state court's termination of P.H.'s parental rights on the grounds of P.H.'s mental health issues consistent with P.H.'s fundamental constitut…
24-5628 Angel Landa-Arevalo v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency constitutional-rights mental-health pre-trial-detention sixth-amendment speedy-trial Was Petitioner's right to a speedy trial violated under the Sixth Amendment? Should the trial judge have ordered a mental health evaluation when urged…
24A140 Christopher Harry West v. Mark Emig, et al. Third Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete cruel-and-unusual eighth-amendment mattress-removal mental-health prisoner-rights qualified-immunity Question not identified.
24A51 Jonetta L. Grieme v. Shawn Collie, Buchanan County Drug Strike Force, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-07-16 Presumed Complete civil-rights disability mental-health pro-se statute-of-limitations tolling Question not identified.
24-35 Sean Eamonn Waite v. Texas Texas 2024-07-12 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health plea-bargain plea-bargaining procedural-due-process Did the TCCA deny petitioner procedural due process by summarily rejecting his substantial constitutional claim without requiring the trial court to r…
23-7663 Sandra Denise Curl, aka Sandra Curl Jacobs, aka Sandra Curl-Jacobs El, aka Minister Sandra El v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process mental-health right-to-counsel sixth-amendment von-moltke-v-gillies waiver waiver-of-counsel I. Whether, for a waiver of the Sixth Amendment right to trial counsel to be effective, a defendant must understand the elements of the charged offens…
23-7631 Julie C. Abril v. Colorado Colorado 2024-06-04 Denied IFP americans-with-disabilities-act colorado constitutional-protections crime-victim-act crime-victims crime-victims-rights due-process justice-system mental-health mental-health-justice-system public-law-98-473 victim-accommodations Crime Victims Act; Credible Fear; Need for Self-Protection from Harm 1. Do crime victims have the right to full participation in the confidential men…
23-7583 Shawn Hill v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility criminal-procedure mental-health plea-bargaining remorse sentencing sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release 1. Was petitioner improperly denied credit for acceptance of responsibility based on an incident in a Hartford jail that appeared to be a mental healt…
23-7520 Toran Peterson v. Esmaeili Emami, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-21 Denied IFP administrative-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment exhaustion juvenile-sentencing mandatory-life-sentence mental-health prison Question not identified.
23A1028 Kalamice Keson Piggee v. Gena Jones, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-05-20 Presumed Complete competency-hearing criminal-trial due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health Question not identified.
23-7290 Theodore Macon Carrington, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-review attorney-general attorney-general-custody civil-commitment criminal-commitment custody due-process mental-health procedural-objection statutory-interpretation I. Whether the district court properly "committ[ed] [Appellant] to the custody and care of the Attorney General " pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4246, given …
23-7099 Keatron Walls v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-law criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines supreme-court-precedent variance-argument 1.) Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that 18 U.S.C. § 2261A(1) is not an unconstitutional expansion of the Commerce Clause in lig…
23-7048 Justin L. Dalcollo v. Anthony Wills, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-21 Denied IFP 14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review legal-standing mental-health standing Question not identified.
23-7030 Logan Dyjak v. Joseph Harper, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection forced-medication fourteenth-amendment judicial-review mental-health petition-denial vitek-v-jones writ-of-certiorari Should this Court order, consistent with 42 U.S.C. § 1983, to vacate and make bonds parental interests this a conditions of hospitalization, with mand…
23-6920 Nicholas Morrow v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-intrusion mental-health mental-health-arrest trespassing trespassing-claim warrantless-entry 1. Could the need for a mental health arrest, without more, justify intruding upon the Petitioner's home without a warrant? 2. If the dismissal of th…
23-6879 Christopher Sean Burrus v. Washington Washington 2024-03-01 Denied IFP 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-challenge cruel-and-unusual-punishment drug-offense due-process eighth-amendment evidentiary-requirements ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum mental-health sentencing-law 1. Washington's personal identity petition hon eastern powers Conviction proceedings Who Are loucden & pcoa? a boty Sed +o Nhe. Setidioned oN ise.) Be…
23-6758 Frank Bernard Johnson v. Virginia Virginia 2024-02-15 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-competency pro-se pro-se-representation right-to-counsel In any trial in which a guilty verdict can result in a criminal conviction; is it lawful to have compulsory pro sc representation by the defendant? I…
23-6765 Ethan Andrew Hannold v. Bobbi Jo Salamon, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2024-02-15 Denied IFP his father and the egregious breach of duty from criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-diagnosis procedural-default Did the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit fail to consider the effect the combination of the relevant attributes of Mr. Hannold's diagnoses o…
23A750 E.R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S.M. and E.M., Children Colorado 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete dependency-and-neglect domestic-violence mental-health parental-rights substance-abuse termination Question not identified.
23-6698 Reginald Harris v. FNU Watson, Hillsboro Police Officer, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appointment-of-counsel civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process indigent-status mental-health mental-health-commitment prisoner-litigation section-1983-claim standing Whether I.F.P., on-duty Department of Transportation Employee unlawful unwarranted mental health committment civil claim, should be afforded appointme…
23-6535 Ryan C. Armstrong v. United States Federal Government, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-case civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-government judicial-circuit law-enforcement mental-health standing state-government state-jurisdiction I am not presenting my case to the Supreme Court with a question. My case is being presented to the Supreme Court as a matter of right. My case is a c…
23-6469 Eric Kimble v. Chance Andes, Acting Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied IFP capital-habeas capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigating-evidence ninth-circuit-review prior-conviction rehabilitation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. This case presents the same questions as Thornell v. Jones, Supreme Court Case No. 22-982 (cert. granted, Dec. 13, 2023): Whether the Ninth Circuit…
23-6342 Ya-Sin El-Amin Shakir v. Tina Walker, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied IFP appellate-review burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-review jury-finding mental-health sufficiency-of-evidence 1. IS Fusils A MENTAL. ku£ PitoceTS V/»lATgi uiHfsl A JvKS'l FiMb/toc. Gvilt is uprtetbk r^£ &Ec&»jLb AEMe^s-rtATCj MfuFn £isit ts//i£wc£, 7
23-6178 Decardo Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentencing criminal-sentencing fact-finding intent-finding mental-health mental-illness plea-colloquy procedural-reasonableness second-degree-murder sentencing-errors substantive-reasonableness venue-insufficiency Question I - Was there adequate consideration at sentencing of Moore's mental illness such as to make his sentence procedurally and substantively erro…
23-6138 John Doe v. Community College of Baltimore County, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-30 Denied IFP civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection higher-education mental-health rehabilitation-act standing 1. Does Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act prohibit federally funded colleges from forcing students off campus for being mentally ill? 2. Does the…
23-451 Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward Tennessee 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) can condition a fit parent's ability to have any consistent with the Due Process Clause child-custody compelling-interest due-process family-court family-law medical-treatment mental-health parental-rights state-interest state-intervention Whether a court, consistent with the Due Process Clause, can condition a fit parent's ability to have any contact with his child on unwanted medical t…
23-5553 Randy Haight v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-12 Denied IFP capital-case capital-punishment due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-retardation statutory-interpretation 1. Where a state trial court resolves disputed issues of material fact without an evidentiary hearing and ignores relevant expert opinion, is the stat…
23-5474 Abder Salim v. Stephen Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center First Circuit 2023-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-impairment procedural-default successive-petition tolling tolling-doctrine Given that petitioner is from Palestine, His English has always been poor, his second language is Spanish his history with mental health in years lead…
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…
23-5374 Jessie C. Roberts v. Danny Samuel Ninth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure delusions hallucinations incompetency ineffective-assistance mental-health specific-intent Whether a trial counsel whose client has been found incompetent to stand trial three different times prior to trial provides ineffective assistance of…
23-5350 Daniel Chris Ramsey v. California California 2023-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection jurisdiction legal-procedure mental-health writ Question not identified.
23-5271 Eric Villarreal v. California California 2023-08-03 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion court-of-appeals criminal-conviction criminal-procedure disability due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-standard legal-review mental-health psychological-disorder right-to-counsel Question not identified.
23-5249 Ryan David Green v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-request civil-rights court-filing death-penalty due-process legal-petition mental-health solitary-confinement supreme-court Question not identified.
23-5180 Dickens Etienne v. Michelle Edmark, Warden First Circuit 2023-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-investigation criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness post-arrest-conduct post-conviction-review right-to-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where there was evidence of a history of the defendant's mental health issues and mental health hospitalization and trial counsel failed to even initi…
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…
22-1203 Alan Patrick Fowler v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-06-13 Denied confrontation-clause confrontation-right constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-sentencing due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mens-rea mental-health sentencing specific-intent 1) Could reasonable jurists disagree on whether there is insufficient evidence of specific intent to commit murder where Fowler never shot at a person…
22-7523 Samuel Caison v. United States First Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment incarceration mental-health nature-of-crime personal-characteristics sentencing-court sentencing-guidelines Whether imposing a period of incarceration that is within the Sentencing Guidelines range can be considered cruel and unusual punishment when the offe…
22-7334 In Re Quincetta Y. Cargill 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance institutional-conditions intellectual-disability legal-appeal medical-treatment mental-health procedural-challenges rules-of-court standing 1. Where petitioner has zero resources and zero assets to be liquidated showing zero probability of risk of flight, why not release her so she could f…
22-7338 Robert Lemke v. United States Second Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP autonomy criminal-autonomy criminal-defendant defendant-rights due-process legal-representation liberty liberty-interests mental-health mental-health-considerations sentencing sentencing-procedure 1. Whether a criminal defendant's right to autonomy with respect to his defense applies to his sentencing? 2. Whether questions of a criminal defenda…
22-6928 Logan Dyjak v. Jo-An Lynn, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-protect first-amendment fourteenth-amendment litigation-reform mental-health sexual-abuse sexual-acts In an action in which an individual is committed for mental health treatment, does a state's failure to protect that individual against other inmates …
22-6812 Ernest Luther Taylor v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure indigent-defendant mental-health mental-illness restitution social-security social-security-disability 1. Did the District Court err when it ordered defendant Taylor to pay interest on a $7500.00 restitution obligation, where the evidence showed that he…
22-718 Louisiana v. Jamaal Edwards Louisiana 2023-02-01 Denied Amici (2) civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law dangerous-individual due-process judicial-precedent mental-health mental-health-law precedent public-safety sanity-acquittee Whether this Court's plurality opinion in Foucha v. Louisiana, 504 U.S. 71 (1992), which prevents States from continuing to hold in sanity acquittees …
22-6663 Steven Janakievski v. Phillip Griffin, Executive Director, Rochester Psychiatric Center Second Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-consequences constitutional-rights custody-discharge due-process habeas-corpus habeas-petition insanity-acquittee mental-health mootness standing unconditional-discharge Is Petitioner Steven 's Federal Habeas Petition moot, now that he has been "Unconditionally Discharged" from the custody of the Office of Mental Healt…
22-6496 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bryan Collier, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-acquittal due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment mental-health psychological-disorder sexually-violent-predator treatment 1. Does an individual who has been diagnosed with a state created psychological disorder have a right to treatment equal to those who the medical comm…
22-6452 Michael L. Ziliak v. James Key, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights claim-evaluation court-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-timeliness mental-health procedural-standards sentencing standing Why was my case denied due to being submitted after the timebar date when another court ruled that it was submitted in a timely manner? why was I sen…
22-6395 Bryan Wolfe v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process mental-condition mental-health multi-offense-adjustment notice racial-animus rehabilitation sentencing sentencing-guidelines upward-departure Was there adequate notice of a departure the night before sentencing, as to allow Wolfe a fair opportunity to rebut the claims that increased his sent…
22-6390 Kristopher M. Voyles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conditions due-process incarceration mental-health sex-offender Is the application of onerous sex offender conditions justified when the government agrees it has no circumstantial evidence of any inappropriate sexu…
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,…
22-490 Lydell Chestnut, Deputy Warden v. Quincy J. Allen Fourth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (3) aedpa death-penalty death-sentence eating-disorder federal-habeas fourth-circuit-review mental-health mental-health-evidence schizophrenia sentencing-consideration state-post-conviction statutory-limitations Did the Fourth Circuit violate 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) limitations and needlessly overturn a state death sentence on an insubstantial premise that Allen's…
22-6131 Andrew Guy Moret v. Poornima Ranganathan, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process government-standard legal-procedure malpractice-standard medical-malpractice medical-professionals mental-health professional-liability qualified-immunity state-standards Whether the standard for mental health professionals to receive qualified immunity is higher, lower, or the same as other medical professionals? II. …
22-474 Laddie Huffman, et al. v. Rachel Harris Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights constitutional-duties criminal-procedure detention due-process fifth-circuit mental-health qualified-immunity schizophrenic-inmate section-1983 In a Section 1983 action against county sheriffs arising from the detention of an incompetent criminal defendant, a court must grant qualified immunit…
22-6004 Tracy Beatty v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied IFP civil-rights clemency clemency-services court-order due-process habeas habeas-petition indigent-capital-defendants mental-health mental-health-crisis statutory-interpretation Whether courts are required by McFarland v. Scott, 512 U.S. 848 (1994), to implement 18 U.S.C. § 3599 consistent with both the language and purpose of…
22-5991 Glenn Randall Ferguson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4241 child-pornography competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts mental-health rule-403 1. When a district court has found a criminal defendant to be incompetent pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4241, and the defendant is then sent to a BOP facili…
22-5994 Kevin Leon Lucien v. Texas Texas 2022-11-04 Denied IFP criminal-procedure duty-to-investigate ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mitigating-evidence punishment standard-of-review trial-counsel voluntary-intoxication 1. Was trial counsel ineffective for failing to investigate and present evidence of voluntary intoxication as mitigating evidence at punishment? 2. W…
22-5947 Kevin Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2022-10-31 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias 1. In light of a court's duty to issue a remedy that "neutralize[s] the taint of a constitutional violation" while avoiding the grant of "a windfall t…
22-5867 Monica McCarrick v. Janelle Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence first-degree-murder meaningful-defense mental-health paranoid-delusions premeditation trial-court-evidence 1. Does an objectively unreasonable violation of the Constitutional right to present a meaningful defense occur when a trial court prevents a defendan…
22-5721 Sealed Appellant v. United States First Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-4245 constitutional-rights due-process government-action involuntary-transfer liberty-interest mental-health mental-health-detention statutory-procedure vitek-v-jones 1. Whether the government violated petitioner's constitutional due process rights by involuntarily transferring him to, and holding him in, a secure m…
22-5664 Wayne Carl Nicolaison v. Minnesota Minnesota 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-modification medical-records mental-health statutory-interpretation DID THE ALTERATION OF THE RECEIVING HOSPTIAL REPORT BY JUDGE BURKE AS MANDATED BY MINN. STAT. § 253B.12 (1990) VIOLATE SUBSTANTIVE LAW?
22-5631 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Marsha McLane, Director, Texas Civil Commitment Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-09-20 Dismissed IFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process mental-health personal-liberty right-to-travel sanctuary state-sovereignty Petitioner Lonnie Kade Welsh is Civilly Committed as a Sexually Violent Predator in the State of Texas. Twenty states follow the SVP Act model to civi…
22-5521 Jesus Jesse Gonzalez v. Texas Texas 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment criminal-law dangerousness due-process intentional-offense mens-rea mental-capacity mental-health sexual-predator texas-law Can a person be unable to control his dangerousness, thus rendering him eligible for civil commitment as a sexual predator, but simultaneously be able…
22-5502 In Re Artis Carroll 2022-09-02 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment legal-representation mental-health right-to-counsel "Conflict foumse a sy 2.0 gyer Me: dole ntlan mi? 6 ons ANd cnnainsy he, d 2yonsl . w4 * sass We: Aefeose Counse! js_ achye ying 4o hove He defendant …
22-141 Michelle McDonald-Witherspoon, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Kenyada Jones v. Amber Browne, et al. Third Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disability due-process equal-protection mental-disability mental-health probation-officer section-1983 Whether a probation officer with no medical or psychiatric training who is in charge of a mentally disabled (schizophrenic) person (who is out of jail…
22-5126 Davis Lamar Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-commitment conditional-release due-process fifth-circuit haldol-injection involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health preponderance-of-evidence standard-of-review 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's denial of Mr. Brooks' Motion for Unconditional Release. 2) Whether the Fifth Cir…
21-8228 Angel Daniel Caraballo v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-hearing criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-standards habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health sworn-testimony Question (1) WHETHER DEFENDANT IS ENTITLED TO A COMPETENCY HEARING WHERE THE FACE OF THE COURT RECORD REFLECTS THAT THE STATE, DEFENSE COUNSEL AND THE…
21-8087 Zachary S. Keeter v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP addiction criminal-defense criminal-law due-process expert-testimony improperly-prescribed-medication involuntary-intoxication judicial-discretion medication-addiction mental-health psychosis-claim 1. Should a person whose addiction is the result of improperly prescribed medication be allowed an involuntary intoxication defense? 2. Petitioner d…
21-8046 Joseph Martin Danks v. California California 2022-06-03 Denied IFP capital-punishment criminal-culpability cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment inmate-rights mental-health state-liability state-responsibility 1. Does the Eighth Amendment preclude the execution of a seriously mentally ill inmate whose homicidal behavior was the reasonably known, foreseeable,…
21-7633 Charles Awusin Inko-Tariah v. United States District of Columbia 2022-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forced-medication government-misconduct judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-treatment pro-se-representation self-representation 1. Was the Supreme Court ruling in Faretta vs California violated or trampled by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circu…
21-7268 Ross Anthony Farca v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split criminal-law criminal-restitution false-statement mental-health military-recruitment property-damage restitution statutory-interpretation The question presented is whether petitioner's offense of making a false statement about his mental health history resulted in "damage to or loss or d…
21-1065 Dennis Wayne Hope v. Todd Harris, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) constitutional-protections cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment judicial-review mental-health physical-health prison-conditions prisoner-rights review-procedures solitary-confinement Whether decades of solitary confinement can, under some circumstances, violate the Eighth Amendment, as at least five circuits have held, or whether s…
21-7020 Charles David Gordon v. Joe A. Lizarraga, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-disclosure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility mental-health segregation self-incrimination voluntariness voluntary-statements I. Whether a defendant's statements may be admitted into evidence when the statements were made while she was placed in segregated confinement based o…
21-6965 Lawtis Donald Rhoden v. Brandon Price, Executive Director of Coalinga State Hospital Ninth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights dangerousness due-process fourteenth-amendment involuntary-commitment mental-disorder mental-health sexually-violent-predator state-hospitals unconditional-discharge I. Whether The Current Version of the California SVP Law Violates the Due Process Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not offer a Me…
21-6943 Ms. T. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services Maryland 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-separation child-welfare discrimination due-process family-law judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-discrimination parental-rights It is fair that the Montgomery County and Appeal Courts did not considerate the fact that I had been mentally stable for 4 years? Isn't true that the…
21-1016 Andrew Huy Chrostowski v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Virginia 2022-01-19 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-defense cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-bargaining psychiatric-examination right-to-present-defense A. Did trial counsel's failure to make a constitutionally adequate inquiry into viable defenses deprive the petitioner of his right to present 'full a…
21-957 Marci M. Webber v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights confinement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-detention ngri not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity Petitioner has been detained in a state mental health center since her bench trial in June 2012, which adjudicated her Not Guilty by Reason of Insanit…
21-6699 J. T. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services Maryland 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests-of-child child-welfare due-process family-law family-separation mental-health mental-stability parental-rights standing Why the Court of Appeal did not considerate the fact that I have been mentally stable for more than 3 years and am dedicated to maintain this status? …
21-6577 Christine Kay Ostopowicz v. United Healthcare Seventh Circuit 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights covid-19 covid-19-delays disability-discrimination due-process medical-evidence mental-health postal-delays procedural-fairness remote-plaintiff united-healthcare Why was my case previously denied by other courts without medical expertise, medical records or reports being taken into consideration even when supp…
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…
21-6269 Johnathan Dewayne Mitchell v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights competency criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process forcible-medication judicial-authority medical-intervention medication mental-health Whether this Court should resolve an issue of first impression and decide if district courts have the authority to order the forcible medication of co…
21-514 Robert Bello v. Rockland County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2021-10-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process firearm-surrender fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment handgun-ownership mental-health property-rights In New York State, when a handgun licensee becomes the subject of a mental health report made pursuant to Mental Hygiene Law § 9.46, the state's handg…
21-515 Ashley Yoo Hyang Kim v. Huong Tran, et al. Massachusetts 2021-10-06 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights disability-records due-process judicial-dismissal medical-records mental-health pro-se-petition schizophrenia-claim standing wrongful-diagnosis With due respect, when the very First Complaint was being dismissed, was it properly dismissed without asking the Pro Se Plaintiff, Ashley Y. Kim, the…
21-5855 Jeremiah Kyle Blaber v. Oregon Oregon 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-due-process criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process individual-standard medical-appropriateness medical-coercion mental-health mental-health-standard physician-opinion trial-fitness 1. Can the court medicate a defendant against the opinion of the defendant's treating physician under a "Sell order" (Sell vs. United States) for the …
21-5632 Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti…
21-293 Vincent Alphonso Powell v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights due-process forcible-medication mental-health panel-decision precedent standing waiver-of-rights 1. Did Powell make a substantial showing that he was entitled to a competency hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(c)(2)? 2. Did Powell make a substantial …
21-5393 Hemy Neuman v. Georgia Georgia 2021-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel criminal-procedure double-jeopardy mental-health procedural-due-process procedural-law reversal-of-conviction substantive-law trial-reversal Where a defendant is found guilty at a second trial after reversal of the first trial's verdict of guilty but mentally ill: 1) Is a double jeopardy cl…
21-152 Estate of Madison Jody Jensen, by Her Personal Representative Jared Jensen v. Kennon Tubbs Tenth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied civil-rights correctional-facilities due-process medical-personnel mental-health mental-health-facilities qualified-immunity Whether private medical personnel working in correctional or mental-health facilities can assert qualified immunity.
21-5298 In Re Rayfield Thibeaux 2021-08-04 Denied IFP access-to-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process forensic-services medical-records mental-health mental-health-treatment social-security social-security-administration standing 1.1 presented new evidence in this filing to the District Court which included the files of the Social Security Administration on the claim I filed wi…
21-5277 Samuel Eaddy v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge disabilities due-process effective-counsel jurisdictional-time-limits mental-health mental-health-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-requirements Individuals are guaranteed the right to effective counsel at trial. These rights mean nothing if attorneys are not held to task as to their stewardshi…
21-5246 Jeffrey Ferguson v. Cook County Correctional Facility/Cermak, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process emergency-care involuntary-commitment mental-health patient-rights 1.) To what degree are standard psychiatry protocols to be followed in the event of an emergency commitment, transfer, discharge, and after-care plann…
21-101 Kevin Scott Karsjens, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Tony Lourey, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit-precedent involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-law treatment-progression treatment-rights Whether an involuntarily committed individual whose continued commitment depends on treatment progression has a constitutional right to treatment?
21-5213 Zachary B. Taylor v. Georgia Georgia 2021-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-imprisonment habeas-corpus medical-negligence mental-health veterans-affairs Review the voir dire jury selection process in the trial court that resulted in a Batson challenge about the racial composition of a majority of a jur…
20-8315 Joel Barcelona v. M. Escotto Rodriguez, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-gas due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health petitioner use-of-force 1. "WHETHER THE RESPONDENT, M. RODRIGUEZ, ET AL., EXCESSIVELY USE OF DEADLY FORCE IN USING A TASER GAS SPRAY VIOLATED PETITIONER'S RIGHTS UNDER THE (I…
20-8206 Prentiss Morris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-06-02 Denied IFP 8th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-review legal-procedure mental-health sentencing statutory-interpretation Can Convicted of alleged Crime be petiticrer mentianed) from retarded (persan) mental a testmany Cbsence of a alane, in the ealuation Detenmine, If al…
20-8038 Shawn Grate v. Ohio Ohio 2021-05-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP capital-punishment criminal-defendant criminal-defense death-penalty due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense mental-health mitigation 1. If a criminal defendant, charged with a death penalty-qualified offense, admit to murdering multiple women, and the only possible defense is a verd…
20-7795 Antwan Lamar Hutchinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure drope-standard due-process mental-health procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review 1) Should the Court reverse the Sixth Circuit's modified version of the three-factor legal test in Drope v. Missouri, because it adds a fourth factor,…
20-7665 Donald David Dillbeck v. Florida Florida 2021-04-06 Denied IFP capital-punishment death-penalty due-process evolving-standards habeas-corpus medical-evidence mental-health post-conviction post-conviction-relief scientific-advancements scientific-evidence 1) What constitutes diligence in raising newly discovered medical and/or mental health evidence and diagnoses? 2) Are capital defendants confined to …
20-7642 Daniel Fetzer v. Shevaun Harris, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights due-process kansas-v-hendricks liberty liberty-interest mental-abnormality mental-health sexual-violence substantive-due-process Doesn't The State Of Florida Have to Obey Your United States Supreme Courts Law In Kansas VHendricks 117S.C.T. 2072 (U.S. Kan . 1997) On Page 2080 . Y…
20-7619 Thomas Powers v. Greg Scott Seventh Circuit 2021-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-delay due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-health sexual-offender sexual-violent-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial A. WHETHER THE THE COURTS SHOULD HAVE CONDUCTED A UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANALYSIS UNDER MBARKER VS WINGO"407 US 532,92 SCt.2182 ON THE "EIGHT YEA…
20-7555 Anthony A. Patel v. Patricia Miller, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP asian-americans civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection mental-health political-speech state-action 1. Do the federal civil rights laws passed for the benefit of Americans of African descent after the U.S. Civil War also apply with equal force and ef…
20-1287 Recovery Innovations, Inc., et al. v. Kenneth Rawson Ninth Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-services state-action state-action-doctrine Whether through the provision of mental health services, a private, non-profit hospital and private healthcare providers become state actors, subject …
20-7450 Anthony A. Patel v. Regents of the University of California California 2021-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-diagnosis political-discrimination political-speech trump-presidency Does the U.S. Constitution permit the State of California to misdiagnose an American Citizen as Suffering from a Mental Disorder for supporting Presid…
20-7429 William Davis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-process constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-examination mental-health post-conviction-relief Whether a reasonable jurist could debate whether Petitioner made a substantial claim where: i) Counsel failed to move for mental examination for plead…
20-7434 William Dawes v. California California 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process forced-medication judicial-discretion judicial-oversight legal-incompetence mental-health prison punishment-standards state-procedure procedures how can one shaw docimentiny evldance when there is no couint repoter' or even a conrt depnty to cull as awitness in a jundicial proceeding…
20-7396 Marlina Calhoun v. Walmart Stores East, LP Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights court-procedure court-representation deposition-misconduct disability-discrimination due-process jury-selection medical-evidence mental-health personal-injury workplace-injury That the Plaintiff first Attorney Douglas was the Walmart Attorney Best friend. Also, that the second attorneys the HOOD LAW Group. Let the discovery …
20-7361 Robert Eugene Ayers v. Virginia Virginia 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial mental-health seventh-amendment sexual-predator sexually-violent-predator Was Petitioner entitled by the Incorporation of the Seventh Amendment's Jury Trial Clause into the Fourteenth Amendment to Trial By Jury in a State Ci…
20-1171 Michael Madison v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-25 Denied capital-punishment due-process fifth-amendment mental-health mitigation self-incrimination Petitioner was sentenced to death after the State presented extensive evidence from his court ordered mental exam by a prosecution-retained psychiatri…
20-7173 Venecia Depaula v. Florida Florida 2021-02-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health plea-offer privileged-communication waiver I. WAS COUNSEL'S ASSISTANCE RENDERED INEFFECTIVE BY HIM ALLOWING PETITIONER TO REJECT A FAVORABLE PLEA OFFER WHERE COUNSEL POSSESSED KNOWLEDGE THAT PE…
20-7154 Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-seizure government-surveillance judicial-misconduct mental-health privacy racial-discrimination sentencing veterans-rights Question not identified.
20-7058 Dwayne Wilson v. Ed Sheldon, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-violation double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection jurisdiction mental-health miscarriage-of-justice Was it a "Miscarriage of Justice " and a violation of the "Clean Hand(s) Doctrine " when Petitioner orally moved the Court to dismiss charge(s) agains…
20-6891 Ronald Knight v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied IFP capital-defense capital-sentencing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-investigation postconviction-relief prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington 1. Whether trial counsel has an obligation to conduct a comprehensive mitigation investigation when clear red flags suggest compelling mitigation, inc…
20-6812 Keith McCoy v. Michael Atherton, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection inter-prison-transfer involuntary-treatment liberty-interest mental-health prison-transfer pro-se-representation state-law stigma 1. Did the Appeals Court err though McCoy might have had a liberty interest in avoiding transfer to a mental hospital for involuntary psychiatric trea…
20-6709 Lance Hundley v. Ohio Ohio 2020-12-28 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-sentencing constitutional-review death-penalty due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-determination mental-health self-representation sixth-amendment 1.Do the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution forbid a trial court from allowing a capital defendant with a questionable mental he…
20-819 Duy T. Mai v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Amici (1) 2nd-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process firearm-ban juvenile-commitment juvenile-justice mental-health second-amendment standing Can the Second Amendment tolerate a lifetime firearm ban on Mr. Mai, a mentally healthy, stable, and law-abiding individual, because of a juvenile inv…
20-6608 Zachary Michael Patten v. Michigan Michigan 2020-12-11 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense investigation medication mental-health search-and-seizure I. Pettioner was denied his constititonal right to the effective assistance of counsel, where in spite of pettoners eftensive mentd health history and…
20-708 Joe Nathan James v. Terry Raybon, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-23 Denied 28-U.S.C.-2254-d appellate-review evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigation-evidence post-conviction-review strickland-standard 1. Whether the Court of Appeals failed to follow the review requirements of 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) and the case law produced surrounding Strickland v. Wa…
20-668 Nina Allison v. Robert Dar-Teh Liou, et al. California 2020-11-16 Denied accommodations americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-disability civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure legal-accommodation legal-profession mental-health mental-illness post-traumatic-stress-disorder This Petition involves the issue of attorneys with undiagnosed mental disabilities, not being properly accommodated by the court in order to effective…
20-629 In Re James Beggs, et ux. 2020-11-10 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights civil-rights-conspiracy conspiracy domestic-terrorism due-process executive-orders mental-health military military-medical-records parental-alienation title-18-conspiracy veterans-rights Whether Females Officers of the Court, deprived a Veteran of continued Mental Health Care from a War Zone under President Obama & Trump Executive Orde…
20-6240 Kyle Brandon Richards v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied IFP aspergers-syndrome cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment due-process mental-health self-representation sentencing-guidelines sentencing-proportionality (1) MR RICHARDS WAS DEPRIVED OF HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS TO SELF REPRESENTATION BY THE TRIAL COURTS SUMMARY DENIAL OF HIS TIMELY REQUEST TO GO PRO SE…
20-5996 Jamaal Howard v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-10-13 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-health-evaluation miranda-rights sixth-amendment 1. Did the Fifth Circuit err in considering the totality of three different trials , and excusing the District Court' s erroneous conclusion regardin …
20-5896 In Re Douglas Weissert 2020-10-02 Denied IFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights cross-examination evidence-admissibility mental-health prescription-medication sixth-amendment trial-procedure witness-testimony WHETHER STATE TRIAL COURT VIOLATED SIXTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS WHEN IT FORBADE CROSS EXAMINING ANGLE LEWIS ON MENTAL HEALTH HISTORY AND USE OF PRESCRIPTION…
20-5721 Sheyna Douprea v. Janel Espinoza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP battered-woman-syndrome ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health post-traumatic-stress-disorder prejudice prejudice-analysis self-defense strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Sheyna Douprea was convicted of first degree murder after she stabbed her boyfriend with a pocketknife while he tried to strangle her. At trial, Doupr…
20-5505 Keith O. Johnson v. Florida Florida 2020-08-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fundamental-error mental-health CAN, a Defendant pursuant to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure § 3.210 be proceeded against in a criminal proceeding where a question of Defendant '…
20-5380 Antonio Deshawn Pitt v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP bank-robbery criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-discretion mental-health proportionality proportionality-principle sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation Whether a district court's statutory obligation to consider the "history and circumstances" of a criminal defendant and to refrain from imposing a sen…
20-5317 Jeremiah Rodgers v. Florida Florida 2020-08-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diagnostic-uncertainty due-process gender-dysphoria medical-evidence mental-health plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness post-conviction-relief procedural-bar 1. Whether the newly discovered evidence of a criminal defendant's medical condition, including gender dysphoria, may implicate the voluntariness of a…
20-5166 J. J. H. v. Waukesha County, Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-07-24 Denied Amici (2)IFP civil-rights disability disability-accommodation due-process equal-protection hearing-rights involuntary-commitment legal-participation mental-health procedural-due-process procedural-fairness Whether a deaf person undergoing an involuntary commitment has a due process right to understand and participate in her hearing.
20-5002 Gilberto Ayun-Flores v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process evidence evidence-law general-intent intent-element mens-rea mental-disease mental-health Whether a defendant charged with a general intent offense may present evidence of mental disease to challenge the government's proof of the mens rea e…
19-8906 Nathan Matthew Kinard v. Michael Hoffman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-07-07 Denied IFP abuse civil-rights commitment-procedures constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody due-process habeas-corpus individual-liberty mental-health Were the witness statements and emails considered? How many others were tortured into taking a plea while in Escambia County Jails protective custody…
19-8759 Terry Dale Ray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule interrogation-rights mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warning When a suspect with a history of mental health illness known to law enforcement makes incriminating statements in violation of Miranda, does the Const…
19-8421 Gilbert Tello v. Texas Texas 2020-05-12 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-sentencing mental-health mental-health-records public-trial sentencing speedy-trial whether the trial court violated petitioners right to a speedy and public trial, Where petitioner was held in Webb County Jail for almmost seven and a…
19-8442 Erica J. Walker v. Florida Florida 2020-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-proceeding fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance insanity mental-health mental-health-evaluation I. Was the Petitioner's right to a fair proceeding, effective assistance of counsel and Due Process of law violated when trial counsel LeRonnie Mason …
19-8154 Jody Stamp v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure disabilities-act disability-accommodations due-process mental-health post-traumatic-stress sentencing sentencing-mitigation The question presented is should the District Coust Judge forcloser of a down word variance be based or the Judges Personal interpcatation of the Defe…
19-8067 Abdul Mohammed v. DuPage Legal Assistance Foundation, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights counsel-appointment disability-rights due-process judicial-procedure medical-records mental-health reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act standing 1) whether a Plaintiff with physical and mental disabilities in an Americans with Disabilities Act action need to reveal all his/her medical and menta…
19-1095 James Beggs, et ux. v. Beverly Story, et al. Virginia 2020-03-06 Denied civil-rights conspiracy court-fraud domestic-terrorism due-process mental-health military-power-of-attorney national-defense-authorization-act standing title-18-usc-241-242 veterans-affairs veterans-rights Was a Veteran deprived of continued Mental Health Care from a War Zone under President Obama Executive Order 13625 by Conspiracy Under Title 18, U.S.C…
19-7720 Lamont Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-circuit-court abuse-of-discretion co-conspirator-hearsay co-conspirator-hearsay-exception criminal-association criminal-history district-court-conviction hearsay-exception mental-health racketeering-conspiracy racketeering-conspiracy-18-usc-1962(d) sentencing sentencing-discretion sentencing-mental-health-treatment sufficient-evidence uncorroborated-confession I. Did the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals abuse.it's discretion in upholding the District Court's conviction that the evidence against Jones was suffi…
19-7543 Earl Osborn v. Christopher Williams, et al. Second Circuit 2020-02-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-remedies civil-rights corrections-department disability-accommodation disability-rights due-process inmate-rights medical-treatment mental-disability mental-health prisoner-rights standing summary-judgment 1. In Blake v Ross, 1365.Ct. 185o, Did The United states Supreme Coort Eliminate The Requirement For An Individualized, Fact Specific petermination Re…
19-7449 Jack Robert Smith v. Harry Oreol Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-mental-health-commitment-due-process- constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-hospitalization mental-health mental-health-commitment patient-rights supreme-court-review 1. Is OLONOVOR V. DONALDSON, 422 US. [?] a Valid Legal Precedent for Due Process? 2. Is FOURIER V. LOUISIANA, 504 US. 71 77-1780 (1992) still Valid? …
19-871 Raheem Chabezz Johnson v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden Virginia 2020-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ake-v-oklahoma due-process indigent-defendant mcwilliams-v-dunn mental-health mental-health-expert sentencing sentencing-phase Whether an indigent defendant who seeks the appointment of a mental conditions expert to assist in the sentencing phase of his trial is denied due pro…
19-864 Bradley Beers v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. Third Circuit 2020-01-10 GVR civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-restriction involuntary-commitment mental-health mootness second-amendment May the government permanently deny a mentally healthy, responsible, and law-abiding citizen of the United States the opportunity to recover his Secon…
19-846 George Artem v. King County Department of Adult & Juvenile Detention, et al. Washington 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights disability-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health procedural-due-process solitary-confinement Whether clearly established Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment and Federal Disability. Law permits jail officials to sanction inmates with mental health …
19-7137 Patrick Randell McIntosh v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-detention civil-commitment civil-rights commitment confinement constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process mental-health personality-disorder procedural-safeguards public-safety standing Question not identified.
19-6963 Roland A. Prenatt v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment attorney-accountability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment mental-health probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-speedy-trial,due-process,right-to- speedy-trial If the sixth amendment of the us, consfitotion quarantees the accused, the right to a speedy trial, then why does the Judge and Attorney feel they hav…
19-6962 Tom S. Mourning, II v. Honorable Gayle L. Crane Missouri 2019-12-17 Denied IFP civil-rights commitment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus hearing judicial-circuit mental-health notice notice-and-hearing state-court state-department state-detention 1. Mou ow. Skote Dudtelal Cirevik Courk cekuse »_peovid, Aottce cond oo henclag pursuant by due FIC, Darensmark bo We Unik Shakes Corstitvitn when o d…
19-717 Michael J. Sands v. Megan J. Brennan, Postmaster General Sixth Circuit 2019-12-06 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection medical-diagnosis medical-fraud mental-health postal-service termination 1. Did the United States Postal Service violate my Constitutional Rights when the Postal Service chose my mental diagnosis (difference of Medical Op…
19-701 Lloyd N. Johnson v. Karen Rimmer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process immunity institutional-care medical-care medical-negligence mental-health professional-judgment qualified-immunity standing youngberg This petition poses two questions: first, whether the "professional judgment standard" this court articulated in Youngberg can be reduced to "whethe…
19-6741 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Jeffrey C. Bloom, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction incompetence incompetency incompetency-determination judicial-discretion mental-health section-1983 standing state-action title-42-usc-1983 1 - Is a Governmental Paid - Governmental Mandated Lawyer that is forced upon an individual against will without consent acting as a Governmental Agen…
19-6627 Andre Williamson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP boykin-standard boykin-v-alabama due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness mental-health mental-health-defendant mental-health-defendants plea-agreement plea-agreements plea-bargaining sentencing strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Will the Supreme Court just step aside or now step in for the current and future generation of mental health defendants that desperately need this cou…
19-6614 Jerome Marshall v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence constitutional-rights criminal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warnings post-conviction-relief procedural-default witness-credibility Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability after Petitioner made a substantia…
19-6518 Eric Burgie v. Arkansas Arkansas 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-robbery civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process jurisdiction mental-fitness mental-health parole parole-eligibility sentencing sentencing-scheme Mr. Bugie filed a section lugo-ill ca petition to corfense and ane appled Miller to an 18-year old. Mr. Burgse sk this court to anwer whether or not t…
19-569 Carlos Manuel Ayestas v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied capital-case capital-case-mitigation-evidence ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigation-evidence mitigation-investigation professional-norms rompilla-v-beard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington substance-abuse wiggins-v-smith This Court has found constitutionally deficient performance of counsel based on "prevailing professional norms" that precede the Court's own decisions…
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…
19-6403 Davin D. Crenshaw, aka Davon D. Crenshaw v. Texas Texas 2019-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony hearsay mental-health sexual-assault victim-impact Is it reasonably pertinent to diagnosisd or treat(mend)" when the stade ments made are clearly beyond the Scope of a SANE examination& Would this be h…
19-6393 Jean-Paul Gamarra v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health psychiatric-testimony trial-fairness In Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166, 179 (2003), this Court held that "the Constitution permits the Government involuntarily to administer antipsyc…
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…
19-514 Nikko A. Jenkins v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-21 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-illness mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment solitary-confinement (1) Whether the sentencing court violated the requirement of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment that capital sentencers give meaningful consideration…
19-6258 In Re Tiran R. Casteel 2019-10-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review competency district-court due-process eighth-circuit false-premise legal-competency mental-health restoration retroactive-determination trial trial-procedure Was the Petitioner restored Prior to the November 2009 Trial ?#1 Was the Petitioners Due Process of Law violated by being Tried in Noveirber 2009, wh…
19-6253 Adam Strege v. United States First Circuit 2019-10-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-discretion law-enforcement-discretion mental-competence mental-disease mental-health reasonable-cause sentencing standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine Question Presented is 18 USCS 4246 4248 4241(d) Unconstitutionally Vague lacking definitive standards by failing to aprise;persons of Ordinary intelli…
19-6147 James Sardakowski v. Mike Romero, Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disabilities disability-rights due-process equal-protection housing-assistance mental-health mental-health-disability non-discrimination parole parole-hearing reoffending-risk Does Mr. Sardakowski have a constitutional right to non-discrimination at a parole hearing with regards to a mental health disabilities? Does Mr. Sar…
19-410 In Re Richard J. Fields 2019-09-26 Denied Relisted (2) civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-distribution fraud judicial-discretion legal-ethics mental-health probate probate-procedure standing testamentary-capacity will-forgery wills witness-testimony This case relates to a 9 million dollar estate of a 96 year old blind man and his family which had three mental patients. Within one hour Judge Rita M…
19-5760 Aly Toure v. New York New York 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-procedure mental-health standing supreme-court-precedent waiver-of-rights 1. DID THE APPELMTE DIVISION VIOLATE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED FEDERAL SUPREME COURT RATIFIED LAW ? 2. DID THE LOWER COURT OVERLOOK DEFENDANTS SIGNIFICANT…
19-5619 Leonardo R. German v. Jerry Goodwin, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied IFP competency constitutional-rights consular-assistance consulate-assistance criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process habeas-corpus mental-health miranda-rights sanity-hearing 1) Did Mr. German possess a Constitutional right to a SANITY COMMISSION HEARING, after his new lawyer raised issues as to his competency prior to the …
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…
19-5487 Martin Anthony Nino v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP violate due-process|civil-rights|8th-amendment|ba without an individualized determination of necess bail-reform-act civil-rights competency-restoration confinement due-process eighth-amendment mental-health (1) Does automatic confinement for competency restoration, without an individualized determination of whether confinement is necessary, violate due pr…
19-5430 Christopher Devon Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-health mental-health-mitigation mitigation wiggins-v-smith Where the district court wrote that Petitioner "raises issues worthy of judicial review," has the Fifth Circuit again applied an overly restrictive st…
19-5191 Kenneth Byron Davenport v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-determination criminal-procedure individualized-sentencing juvenile-offenders juvenile-sentencing mental-disability mental-health mental-health-and-mental-retardation-act mental-illness miller-v-alabama post-conviction-relief post-conviction-relief-act schizophrenia Does the legal "right" recognized in Miller v. Alabama, 132 S.Ct. 2455 (2012), include all substantive components necessary to its creation, including…
19-5143 S. T. v. Washington Department of Social and Health Services Washington 2019-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,mental-health,public-bene constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment government-agency mental-health mental-health-evaluation public-benefits standing takings I. Can a state agency require participation in mental health evaluation and treatment in order to qualify for public benefits when those mental health…
18-9742 Mikle Anthony Butler v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-discretion mental-health mental-illness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Question not identified.
18-9620 Christopher J. Miller v. Joel Martinez, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse civil-rights criminal-law due-process emotional-harm legal-precedent mental-health non-sexual-touch prosecutorial-misconduct restitution Like unknown numbers of American citizens, petitioner is unfortunately a pedophile. Seizing upon that fact, the prosecutor vilified the defendant for …
18-9556 Charles R. Willard v. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-06-05 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability inconsistent-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-illness prejudice prior-convictions prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-mitigation trial-counsel witness-credibility witness-impeachment 1. Is the low threshold for a certificate of appealability ("COA") met on a claim that trial counsel provided prejudicially deficient performance when…
18-9451 Denzel Pittman v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure due-process illinois-law judicial-mandate juvenile-justice mental-health petition-for-leave-to-appeal second-amendment self-regulation standing supreme-court takings A defendant, whose age falls on the Adult side of the Miller height line, is entitled under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution to …
18-9160 Radomysl Twardowski v. Bismarck Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-06 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process jury-trial mental-health right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion mental-health psychological-treatment right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations 1. SHOULD THERE BE A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON GRAVE MORAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL PERSONAL INJURIES ACTIONS WHICH CONTRIBUTE SIGNIFICANTLY TO WRON…
18-9095 Michael Hall v. Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court-jurisdiction hospital-status medical-negligence mental-health mental-hygiene-law new-york-state section-1915-review standing Clarification of the factual, exact and/or precise status of Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center as a "Private Hospital"? As insisted fro…
18-8990 Raszell Reeder v. E. Wheldon, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights compensatory-damages constitutional-claims cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-neglect medical-records medical-treatment mental-health prisoner-healthcare I have genital herpes. I experience painful ulcers that appears in the open end of sores that are extremely painful. Also, herpetic lesions, systemic …
18-1232 Al Zeiny v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights due-process emotional-distress fbi-investigation federal-tort-claims-act free-speech government-misconduct intelligence-agency intelligence-agency-misconduct mental-health pro-se pro-se-litigant standing Was the Court of appeals correct in ignoring the findings by the FBI and deny the substantiality of Zeiny's allegations? Whether Zeiny's complaint sa…
18-8498 Oryan Yazzie v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guideline-range mental-health sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-review substantive-reasonableness supervised-release Is a supervised release revocation sentence of a length more than double the top of the advisory Guideline range substantively unreasonable if the dis…
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…
18-8471 Arthur Abraham v. California California 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof confinement due-process insanity-acquittee mental-health personality-disorder personality-traits release state-confinement The first question presented is whether the Due Process Clause permits the State to continue to confine an insanity acquittee after he has recovered h…
18-8407 Gregory Scott Savoy v. Craig M. Burns, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied IFP antipsychotic-drugs brain-volume brain-volume-reduction civil-rights constitutional-equity due-process equity involuntary-treatment judicial-deference medical-coercion mental-health Considering that "extreme legality is the worst law" (Cicero, "De Officiis," 44 B.C.) and that there are victims and survivors of the schizophrenia sp…
18-8340 Victor Roblero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied IFP constitutes a violation of the Sixth Amendment ri specifically the failure to investigate and prese appeal capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sixth-amendment Question not identified.
18-8298 Jermaine Brazill v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-offender cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process due-process-rights eighth-amendment independent-inquiry juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole mental-health rehabilitation rehabilitative-potential young-age Was it a violation of due process for the trial judge to rely purely on an opinion conducting any independent inquiry into the Petitioner's fitness. …
18-8253 Jamie Kenmont Kerien Brown v. Georgia Georgia 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus intellectual-disability mental-health post-conviction-relief If hs er Ptn Ce oh Con po c indvda ~ W. h qua Ces o he .S. C ee a te ve e be inam? V. I ohe adilt murderer?
18-8209 Raymond Alford Bradford v. M. Marchak, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court civil-rights due-process healthcare judicial-precedent legal-interpretation mental-health ninth-circuit prisoner-rights prisoners-rights statutory-interpretation 507, 5a7 (I9Be) In Which the California CourT OF Appeal held tHat "state Priooners Presently have a statutory right absent a judicial determination th…
18-8196 Larry R. Tart v. Erik A. Hooks, Secretary, North Carolina Department of Public Safety Fourth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection forensic-evaluation ineffective-assistance-of-counsel medication medication-consent mental-health pretrial-detention solitary-confinement Where in pre trial confinement Petitioner was unknowingly admnistered3 three different mental health psychologica "twenty nine medication's and not hi…
18-7890 In Re Jose Joaquin Ramirez 2019-02-13 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment mental-health procedural-safeguards standing state-government Question not identified.
18-7880 Terrance Jerome Clarke v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias mental-health plea-bargaining right-to-counsel Are the elements of 18 U.S.C.§ 924 C satisfied if a unloaded Firearm and drugs and the unloaded Firearm of the crime? O does this constitute Title 18 …
18-7835 Iouri Mikhel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied IFP burden-of-proof competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-judiciary hostage-taking judicial-discretion mental-health recusal standard-of-proof treaty-power trial-procedure 1. Due process requires the trial court to order a competency hearing whenever the uncontradicted evidence raises a doubt as to the defendant's compet…
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 …
18-7502 Edjuan Payne v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-24 Denied IFP appeals appellate-review civil-rights competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-fitness mental-health right-to-a-fair-trial right-to-counsel sentencing trial-errors Question not identified.
18-7519 Daltonia Duncan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-4246 civil-commitment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-law state-custody statutory-interpretation united-states-code Whether a district court may civilly commit a person under 18 U.S.C. § 4246 without first determining whether suitable arrangements for state custody …
18-7283 Angel Bartlett v. Kalamazoo County Community Mental Health Board, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP civil-rights corrective-programs discriminatory-practices due-process false-imprisonment false-reporting false-reports mental-health mental-health-confinement probate religious-discrimination torture-allegations weapons-of-mass-destruction IS it illegal or wrongful for Community Mental Health to be holding Angel Bartlett in corrective programs even when there is no open probate to hold A…
18-7275 Thomas Powers v. Jennifer Block, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detainee civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights counsel-appointment due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-treatment retaliation standing treatment-program 1. WHETHER THE MOST HONORABLE COURT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT WILL DEFINE THE ELEMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTIONS' ADEQUATE CIVIL DETAINEE TREATMEN…
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…
18-7058 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment bail-denial civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony flight-risk mental-health pretrial-detention 1169 to 16p o4 I for 15 months on a over lou loved D fodlony, for an individual who has no docrnte insturxes of violence, ond no history of flight 9 d…
18-6713 Donald Anthony Grant v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2018-11-15 Denied IFP 8th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty eddings-precedent eddings-v-oklahoma eighth-amendment lockett-rule lockett-v-ohio mental-health mental-health-evidence mitigating-evidence moral-culpability Whether Oklahoma's "moral culpability" jury instruction, which restricts consideration of mitigating evidence of a defendant's mental health and backg…
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…
18-6513 Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims.
18-6344 Brandon Eugene Lacy v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-10-16 Denied IFP criminal-procedure cumulative-error cumulative-error-analysis fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health neuropsychological-evaluation neuropsychological-testing Sixth-Amendment strickland-standard Strickland-v-Washington 1. Whether the Arkansas Supreme Court misapplied this Court's ruling in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 688 (1984) by finding it reasonable for tri…
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…
18-6288 Jesse Cooley, Jr. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, Department of Labor, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-10-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process employment-discrimination mental-health mental-stress physical-health physical-stress retaliation workers-compensation Iaskime Jesse cooleyur For a Total investigation. Then you Hon Jodge will Fine out That I. worked in The same placr That other employer worked some OF…
18-6135 James K. Kahler v. Kansas Kansas 2018-09-28 Judgment Issued Amici (12)Relisted (7)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense legal-history mens-rea mental-health Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state to abolish the insanity defense?
18-5943 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Kathy Hung Pham, et al. Oregon 2018-09-12 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence costs-and-fees due-process elder-care guardianship guardianship-petition medical-decision-making mental-health standing trial-court-error Did the trial court err in ruling General Judgment of Dismissal the Guardianship Petition filed by Linh Thi Minh Tran with prejudice? Did the trial c…
18-5926 Darnell Wilkins v. Jay Lane, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Fayette, et al. Third Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process equitable-tolling guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-health mental-incapacity pcra psychotropic-medications standing DID PETITIONER'S MENTAL INCAPACITY DID NOT ENTITLE HIM TO EQUITABLE TOLLING? WERE THE PETITIONER'S PCRA AND APPELLATE RIGHTS VIOLATED AS HIS GUILTY P…
18-5616 Robert Earl Clayborne, Jr. v. Nebraska Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment civil-rights competency competency-hearing criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-disability mental-health prosecutorial-misconduct right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Why Petitioner entitled to a Certificate of Appealability on the issue of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel based on Incompetence? Was the Petitioner…
18-5460 David Hill v. Brent Reinke, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-06 Denied IFP administrative-control-of-facilities baxstrom-v-herold circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process inmate-transfer mental-health mental-health-facility mental-health-facility-transfers prison prison-administration temporary temporary-transfers transfer vitek-v-jones Can a prison or jail, when transferring an inmate to a mental health facility, avoid the due process protections recognized by this Court in Vitek v. …
18-5456 Gary Allen Kachina v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation competence competency-hearing criminal-procedure discovery discovery-violation discovery-violations due-process exculpatory-evidence mental-health mental-health-evaluation necessity-defense subpoena Did the Trial Court error in denying petitioner's motions for Discovery violations under BRADY v. MARYLAND and for refusal to enforce petitioner's cou…
18-5425 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. New York 2018-08-02 Denied Relisted (2)IFP access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing 1. Is thr Nru Yok Stute Bil Lav as appli-d (530.40) a bill of Attuinder 272 2. Is denyin horing, not risprdhny to mations, prporly keeping accyse out…
18-5400 In Re Wilma Pennington-Thurman 2018-08-01 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process habeas-corpus mental-health mental-incarceration pro-se standing unlawful-detention writ-of-right In re to Wilma Pennington-Thurman, can I file "The Great Writ" a Writ of Habeas Corpus when I am not physically incarcerated, but mentally incarcerate…
18-5199 Keith Warren Lewis v. Rachelle Hadari New Jersey 2018-07-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights court-procedure custody custody-evaluation due-process fair-trial family-law medical-expert mental-health partisan-expert trial-fairness Whether in custody cases a court can force one party to be evaluated by the opposing party's private medical expert. Is this an unconstitutional abuse…
18-5137 Maurice Daniel v. Brooklyn Law School New York 2018-07-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-authority academic-due-process academic-performance americans-with-disabilities-act americans-with-disabilities-act-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act-title-iii discrimination discriminatory-punishment due-process educational-discrimination mental-health mental-illness new-york-city-human-rights-law new-york-city-human-rights-law-section-8-107(4)(a) title-ii title-iii IS AN ACADEMIC DEAN'S DECISION TO BAR A STUDENT FROM TAKING TWO MAKEUP EXAMS, AND KICK HIM OUT OF SCHOOL BECAUSE OF HER MISTAKEN BELIEF THAT THE STUDE…
18-5068 Taliyah Taylor v. Amy Lamanna, Acting Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 compulsory-process criminal-defense criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns depraved-indifference due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-counsel mental-disease-defect mental-disease-or-defect mental-health post-conviction-relief strickland-standard strickland-v-washington wiggins-v-smith Does defense counsel in a second degree depraved indifference murder case violate the requirements of Strickland v. Washington by failing to investiga…