| 25-6336 |
Joshua J. Lewandowski v. Jefferey Perkins, Superintendent, Coyote Ridge Corrections Center |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-11 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights effective-assistance-counsel fetal-alcohol-syndrome guilty-plea mental-disability sixth-amendment |
A. Does the Sixth Amendment to the United State Constitution require Defense Counsel to ensure A mentally disabled defendants guilty plea tod of Congr… |
| 23A276 |
Michael Duane Zack v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
|
clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process executive-clemency fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-disability |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires that death-sentenced individuals have meaningful access to executive clemency proceedings that afford an oppor… |
| 23-5653 |
Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-exemption atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome fourteenth-amendment intellectual-developmental-disorder medical-consensus witherspoon-v-illinois |
Does the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment bar the execution of a defendant with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome who was not sentenced to death by a unanimous jur… |
| 23A262 |
Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
|
atkins-exemption death-penalty eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-developmental-disability unanimous-jury-requirement |
Whether Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, recognized by the medical community as functionally identical to Intellectual Developmental Disability, categorically … |
| 20-6310 |
Dean Phillip Carter v. Ron Broomfield, Acting Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254d1 attorney-client-conflict due-process fetal-alcohol-syndrome fundamental-rights habeas-corpus holloway-v-arkansas ineffective-assistance strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a trial court has a duty to inquire into a conflict between a defendant and his attorney that implicates fundamental rights |
| 18-1495 |
Bryan P. Stirling, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. v. Charles Christopher Williams |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
|
aedpa aedpa-review aedpa-standard capital-case capital-punishment capital-sentencing double-edged-evidence double-edged-sword fetal-alcohol-syndrome future-dangerousness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether a state court is objectively unreasonable under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(1) in concluding a capital defendant was not prejudiced by counsel's failu… |