junk-science

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
21-6039	Stanley Blair Hill v. Tennessee	Tennessee	2021-10-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	civil-rights due-process expert-testimony junk-science scientific-evidence strickland-prejudice	Whether the trial court erred in admitting unreliable scientific testimony and evidence, in violation of the petitioner's due process rights
19-5839	Randall Wayne Mays v. Texas	Texas	2019-09-05	Denied	IFP	competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty delusions due-process eighth-amendment ford-hearing junk-science lay-stereotypes mental-competency mental-illness panetti-v-quarterman	Whether a state court may rely on junk science and lay stereotypes of the severely mentally ill to adjudicate a Ford claim
18-744	Mark Unger v. David Bergh, Warden	Sixth Circuit	2018-12-11	Denied		criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel junk-science sixth-amendment	Whether the Sixth Amendment guarantee of effective assistance of counsel is violated when counsel fails to expose junk science that sends his client t…
25A335	In Re Blaine Milam			Denied		actual-innocence death-penalty eighth-amendment forensic-evidence intellectual-disability junk-science	Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a potentially innocent defendant based on now-discredited forensic evidence and testimony