competency-to-stand-trial

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5042 Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-inquiry mental-health Question not identified.
24-6861 Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment competency-to-stand-trial detention-order inter-circuit-conflict mootness Did the Eleventh Circuit err and create an inter-circuit conflict by dismissing Mr. Alhindi's appeal as moot where, pursuant to United States v. Carri…
24-477 Thomas John Boukamp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-standard mental-capacity Whether the Dusky standard for competency to stand trial requires a defendant to have a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings against …
23-7799 Esther Martin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-to-stand-trial counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings sixth-amendment Whether counsel performed deficiently by failing to investigate and challenge an intellectually disabled defendant's competency based on known red fla…
23-1044 Juan Balderas v. Texas Texas 2024-03-21 Denied abuse-of-writ brady-violation competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance judicial-review Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' summary dismissal of Juan Balderas's subsequent habeas petition violated due process
23-5404 Grace Woodham v. New Hampshire New Hampshire 2023-08-21 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-jurisdiction mental-health-treatment pretrial-detention Whether the appellate and trial counsel provided ineffective assistance in violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel
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?
20-5468 Corey Manning v. Michigan Michigan 2020-08-24 Denied IFP competency-hearing competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-procedure critical-stages due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure right-to-be-present supreme-court-precedent trial-presence Whether defendant-appellant was denied his constitutional right to be present at all critical stages of trial
19-7769 Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied IFP 6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation Whether the petitioner's 6th Amendment right to a fair trial was violated due to ineffective assistance of counsel, prosecutorial misconduct, and lack…
19-6823 Michael Dean Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brain-dysfunction certificate-of-appealability competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-illness pate-v-robinson procedural-bar state-waiver Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals's waiver bar is an independent and adequate state procedural ground that forecloses federal habeas review
19-6557 Steven Nygren v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency-to-stand-trial forensic-evaluation malingering material-evidence obstruction-of-justice rehabilitation sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g-3c1.1 u.s.s.g.-3c1.1 Whether a defendant's purported malingering during forensic evaluations to assess competency to stand trial, when the defendant had a medically docume…
19-6316 James Matthew Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability competency-evaluation competency-to-stand-trial evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the lower court erred in denying Shelton's habeas claim alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and abused its discretion in denying him an…
19-5992 Demond Chatman v. Douglas Demoura First Circuit 2019-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review certificate-of-appealability competency competency-to-stand-trial due-process first-circuit first-circuit-court-of-appeals genuine-issue right-to-trial standing Did the First Circuit Court of Appeals err in refusing to grant certificate of appealability where, contrary to their stated denial, petitioner presen…