mental-incompetency
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5129 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-07-16 | Denied | IFP | common-law-prohibition competency-to-execute cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ford-standard mental-incompetency | Whether a state may refuse to provide a process by which a state inmate may prove that he is not competent to be executed because he meets the common … |
| 20-8304 | Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar | Did the U.S. District Court and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals error by denying petitioner's 28 U.S.C.A. § 2254 Writ of Habeas Corpus Petition as… |
| 20-6695 | Lori Anna Massey v. MultiCare Health System, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-23 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights disability-law due-process legal-incompetency mental-incompetency physical-disability statute-of-limitations time-bar tolling | 1. Should no time limit apply? |
| 19-8264 | Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2020-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing | I. Mental Incompetency The law states that no person with mental diseare or defect shall be sentenced for commission of an offence as long as such inc… |
| 18-7117 | Charles J. Mayberry v. Michael A. Dittman, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida mental-incompetency statute-of-limitations | Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals contravenes this Court's precedent in Holland v. Florida, 560 U.S. 631 (2010), by ruling t… |