criminal-competency

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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…