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4 results for “Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al.”

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Tags Question Presented
24-7351 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-06-03 Granted batson-challenge capital-punishment equal-protection habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes racial-discrimination Does clearly established federal law require reversal of a state appellate court's denial of relief from a capital prosecutor's discriminatory exercis…
24A1022 Terry Pitchford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-04-22 Presumed Complete None
24-910 Charles Ray Crawford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied ake-standard due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mental-health-expert sixth-amendment Whether the trial court violated Ake v. Oklahoma by imposing preconditions on expert mental health assistance for an indigent criminal defendant raisi…
21-5790 Patricia Ann Brown v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-28 Denied constitutional-challenge crime-of-violence criminal-statute due-process felony-definition life-imprisonment sentencing-enhancement state-statute vagueness vagueness-doctrine Is a state statute, providing for an enhanced punishment (life imprisonment) for one convicted of a 'crime of violence,' unconstitutionally vague, whe…