No. 23-5393

Shaun N. Taylor v. Illinois

Lower Court: Illinois
Docketed: 2023-08-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: ake-v-oklahoma criminal-procedure due-process expert-appointment expert-witness fourteenth-amendment indigent-defendant insanity-expert mental-competency mental-health right-to-counsel
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2023-09-26
Question Presented (AI Summary)

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 where the defendant's first insanity expert provided a 'borderline' opinion that the defendant was sane and advised that a second opinion be sought?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 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 where the defendant’s first insanity expert provided a “borderline” opinion that the defendant was sane and advised that a second opinion be sought? II. Does Illinois’s statutory scheme creating grossly imbalanced rights to the appointment of insanity experts for prosecutors and indigent defendants violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? i

Docket Entries

2023-10-02
Petition DENIED.
2023-08-31
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/26/2023.
2023-08-30
Waiver of right of respondent Illinois to respond filed.
2023-08-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 18, 2023)

Attorneys

Illinois
Katherine Marie DoerschOffice of the Illinois Attorney General, Respondent
Shaun Taylor
Santiago Alonso DurangoOffice of the State Appellate Defender, Petitioner