fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5534 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio 2025-09-03 Denied IFP cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder fourteenth-amendment Does the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of Due Process and Equal Prot…
24A1268 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Question not identified.
22-5416 James Montell Chappell v. Nevada Nevada 2022-08-22 Denied IFP capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder ineffective-assistance-of-counsel organic-brain-damage prejudice prejudice-prong strickland-standard strickland-v-washington When trial counsel in a capital case presents anecdotal evidence of prenatal exposure to alcohol and evidence of learning disability but not expert te…
19-8921 Zane Floyd v. William Gittere, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Amici (1)IFP aedpa brain-damage capital-case fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-evidence ninth-circuit-rule strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Trial counsel in this capital case knew that the defendant's mother had consumed alcohol while pregnant. Despite recognizing the need to investigate w…
19-8105 Justin Anderson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-03-26 Denied Amici (1)IFP brain-damage capital-sentencing federal-habeas fetal-alcohol-spectrum fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder ineffective-assistance mitigating-evidence postconviction-proceedings strickland-prejudice strickland-standard Trial counsel for the defendant in this capital case learned from four witnesses that the defendant's mother had a drinking problem, including one wit…