No. 24-6933
Mikal Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections
IFP
Tags: capital-punishment childhood-trauma death-penalty ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Punishment
HabeasCorpus Punishment
Latest Conference:
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Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when trial counsel fails to fully investigate and present mitigating evidence of childhood trauma
Question Presented (OCR Extract)
No question identified. : i
Docket Entries
2025-04-11
Petition DENIED.
2025-04-11
Application (24A956) referred to the Court.
2025-04-11
Application (24A956) for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
2025-04-10
Reply of Mikal Mahdi submitted.
2025-04-10
Reply of petitioner Mikal Mahdi filed.
2025-04-09
Brief of Bryan Stirling in opposition submitted.
2025-04-09
Brief of respondent Bryan Stirling in opposition filed.
2025-04-08
Amicus brief of The Gault Center et al submitted.
2025-04-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed.
2025-04-07
Application (24A956) for a stay of execution of sentence of death, submitted to The Chief Justice.
Attorneys
Bryan Stirling
Melody Jane Brown — South Carolina Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Mikal Mahdi
The Gault Center et al
Seth C. Farber — Winston & Strawn LLP, Amicus