| 24-5236 |
Francisco German Alvarez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boykin-v-alabama competence-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights due-process guilty-plea united-states-v-ruiz voluntariness waiver |
In determining the voluntariness of a guilty plea, did the Ninth Circuit improperly apply the competence-to-stand-trial standard instead of the Boykin… |
| 21-6908 |
Jessie Flores v. Brian Cates, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competence-to-stand-trial competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-defense mental-state-defense psychosis specific-intent substance-abuse willful-deliberate-and-premeditated-murder |
Does defense counsel unreasonably fail to investigate and present a mental state defense to a charge of willful, deliberate and premeditated murder? |
| 19-5598 |
Wade Hampton Bigelow, aka Ray Ford Gore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights competence-to-stand-trial competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discrimination due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insanity-defense judicial-discretion mental-competency mental-health mental-health-records psychiatric-evaluation |
Whether the District Court failed to rule consistent with the Insanity Defense Reform Act |