dementia
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22-7764 | Duane E. Owen v. Florida | Florida | 2023-06-12 | Denied | IFP | competency competency-to-be-executed criminal-procedure death-penalty dementia due-process eighth-amendment insanity legal-insanity rational-understanding | 1. Whether the State of Florida's perfunctory evaluation of Owen's claim that he is legally insane and incompetent to be executed violated the Eighth … |
| 18-7937 | Jaques J. Sullivan v. Scott Lewis, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure dementia due-process fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-malpractice sixth-amendment standing | Thfl the Lower courts erred in judgment by dismissing Petitioner 'Actual Conflict in dual-representation" when trial counsel's dementia was cause for … |
| 18-7547 | Michael Joseph Mulder v. Nevada | Nevada | 2019-01-24 | Denied | IFP | competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty dementia eighth-amendment intellectual-disability memory-loss | Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically excludes from the death penalty an individual who, because of a stroke that caused dementia, is functionall… |