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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19-5568 | Keith D. Nelson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | brain-damage capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability childhood-abuse childhood-sexual-abuse ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence mental-illness mitigating-evidence prejudice-analysis strickland-prejudice strickland-prejudice-standard strickland-standard | Does it violate the Strickland prejudice standard to conclude that never before presented evidence of brain damage, severe mental illness, and childho… |
| 18A1263 | Keith D. Nelson v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-04 | Presumed Complete | capital-sentencing certificate-of-appealability constitutional-standards death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance | Whether the Eighth Amendment and standards for ineffective assistance of counsel require a new sentencing hearing when trial counsel's performance fal… |