criminal-competency
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-32 | Mason Binion v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-obligation criminal-competency defendant-rights due-process harmless-error trial-court-procedure | Whether a procedurally inadequate inquiry into a criminal defendant's competence is rendered constitutionally harmless if defense counsel does not con… |
| 24-6021 | Samuel Boima v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-competency due-process governmental-interests involuntary-medication mental-health trial-fairness | How should district courts decide whether a crime is 'serious' within the meaning of Sell? |
| 22-5991 | Glenn Randall Ferguson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4241 child-pornography competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts mental-health rule-403 | When a district court has found a criminal defendant to be incompetent, is it sufficient to reverse the finding based solely on professional opinions … |
| 19-8286 | Edward Tiger v. Florida | Florida | 2020-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-prerequisite | Whether a finding that a criminal defendant is presently competent to proceed is a jurisdictional prerequisite to a court's authority to deprive an ac… |
| 19-6393 | Jean-Paul Gamarra v. United States | District of Columbia | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health psychiatric-testimony trial-fairness | Whether the Constitution permits the government to satisfy the Sell requirements based on testimony from a prison psychiatrist who did not examine, or… |