| 24A1150 |
Stephen Corey Bryant v. Joel Anderson, Acting Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Presumed Complete |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's denial of a death-sentenced prisoner's appeal violates his constitutional rights to effective assistance of counsel or du… |
| 24-6933 |
Mikal Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
South Carolina |
2025-04-08 |
Denied |
capital-punishment childhood-trauma death-penalty ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment |
Whether a capital defendant's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel is violated when trial counsel fails to fully investigate and p… |
| 22-5536 |
Mikal D. Mahdi v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
capital-mitigation ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation-into-mitigating-evidence mental-health-background mitigating-evidence post-conviction-review sixth-amendment traumatic-background trial-investigation |
Did the state post-conviction court misapply this Court's Sixth Amendment precedent when it held that Mikal Mahdi's trial attorneys reasonably ended t… |
| 18-6110 |
Mikal Mahdi v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
appointment-of-counsel capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty death-sentence habeas-corpus indigent-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief procedural-history right-to-counsel sixth-amendment south-carolina-supreme-court state-court |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when the state post-conviction court failed to appoint counsel for M… |
| 24A956 |
Mikal Mahdi v. Bryan Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections |
South Carolina |
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Denied |
None |
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