competence-to-stand-trial

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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