incompetency

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23A1008 Darryl Watts v. New York New York 2024-05-13 Presumed Complete circuit-split due-process incompetency liberty-interest registration-hearing sora Whether a Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) hearing violates due process when conducted with uncontroverted evidence that the registrant is incompe…
23-5374 Jessie C. Roberts v. Danny Samuel Ninth Circuit 2023-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency criminal-procedure delusions hallucinations incompetency ineffective-assistance mental-health specific-intent Whether trial counsel provided ineffective assistance by failing to investigate and present testimony from mental health experts supporting that the c…
21-7015 Edward T. James v. Florida Florida 2022-01-31 Denied IFP capital-defendant court-procedure criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incompetency incompetency-claim mental-competency substantive-claim substantive-review Whether a court may refuse to review a capital defendant's substantive incompetency claim?
21-6382 Askia Mustafa Raheem v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP brain-damage cause-and-prejudice criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus incompetency plain-error seizure-disorder Whether the lower courts violated this Court's incompetency and 'right to evidentiary hearing' habeas law
20-7711 Scott Dwayne Chatman v. Iowa Iowa 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process incompetency incompetent-defendant iowa-court-of-appeals iowa-courts judicial-review mental-competency Did the Iowa court of appeals deny an incompetent defendant due process?
19-723 Oliver Lee White v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Relisted (2) civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment incompetence incompetency liberty-interest sexually-dangerous sexually-violent-conduct Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause forbids the civil-commitment trial of an incompetent person whose prior conduct is disputed
19-6741 Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Jeffrey C. Bloom, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction incompetence incompetency incompetency-determination judicial-discretion mental-health section-1983 standing state-action title-42-usc-1983 Is a Governmental Paid - Governmental Mandated Lawyer that is forced upon an individual against will without consent acting as a Governmental Agent?