No. 20-7238

Alberto Julio Garcia v. Mississippi

Lower Court: Mississippi
Docketed: 2021-02-24
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process dusky-standard eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mental-competency pretrial-proceedings restorative-treatment
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment CriminalProcedure HabeasCorpus Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-05-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does Mississippi's 'presumption of competency' violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or the Eighth Amendment, when that presumption is expanded to allow trial courts to conduct dispositive pretrial proceedings determining matters later relied upon to sentence that defendant to death when the only expert testimony established that the defendant was Dusky incompetent with respect to participating in any of those pretrial proceedings, and was undergoing as yet incomplete court ordered restorative treatment during some of them?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Does Mississippi’s “presumption of competency” violate the Fourteenth Amendment, and/or the Eighth Amendment, when that presumption is expanded to allow trial courts to conduct dispositive pretrial proceedings determining matters later relied upon to sentence that defendant to death when the only expert testimony established that the defendant was Dusky incompetent with respect to participating in any of those pretrial proceedings, and was undergoing as yet incomplete court ordered restorative treatment during some of them? i

Docket Entries

2021-06-01
Petition DENIED.
2021-05-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/27/2021.
2021-04-23
Brief of respondent State of Mississippi in opposition filed.
2021-03-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 26, 2021.
2021-03-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 26, 2021 to April 26, 2021, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-02-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 26, 2021)

Attorneys

Alberto Garcia
Andre De Gruy — Petitioner
State of Mississippi
Candice Leigh RuckerMississippi Attorney General's Office, Respondent