mental-capacity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A821 Taylor Rene Parker v. Texas Texas 2026-01-16 Application capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-capacity Question not identified.
24-477 Thomas John Boukamp v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-10-30 Denied Response Waived competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure due-process fifth-circuit judicial-standard mental-capacity Whether the Dusky standard for competency to stand trial requires a defendant to have a rational and factual understanding of the proceedings against …
24-5593 Otis Brandon v. Janssen Pharmaceuticals, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied IFP drug-labeling fda-citations judicial-review medical-liability mental-capacity pharmaceutical-misconduct Did the lower courts fail to properly consider evidence of pharmaceutical misconduct and misrepresentation in cases against Janssen and Johnson & John…
23-7037 Billy Joe King v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-03-20 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction burden-of-proof civil-procedure competency-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility judicial-review mental-capacity standing Whether the petitioner has met the burden of proof to establish his mental incompetence and entitlement to a competency hearing
23-5628 Richard C. Duerson, as Next Friend of Jennifer McFarland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-standard constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection mental-capacity mental-competency next-friend next-friend-petition physical-competency standing What Constitutional Standards should be applied when a judge is tasked with determining the competency of a defendant with known physical and mental a…
22-7819 Javier Bautista-Scheuber v. Alia Day Floren Montana 2023-06-20 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights disability due-process equal-access equal-protection judicial-bias mental-capacity procedural-fairness standing Does the violation of a fundamental constitutional right constitute grounds for the Supreme Court to review and reverse a judgment?
22-7265 Allen Franks v. Florida Florida 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 3.850-motion civil-procedure due-process government-fraud ineffective-counsel mental-capacity mental-disability plea-bargaining plea-process post-conviction-relief standing Whether petitioner was denied due process when trial court failed to allow the petitioner an opportunity to file a reply to state's response on petiti…
22-6006 Justin Richard Testani v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-history cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-disparity Whether a 720-month sentence violates the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual sentences
22-5521 Jesus Jesse Gonzalez v. Texas Texas 2022-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-commitment criminal-law dangerousness due-process intentional-offense mens-rea mental-capacity mental-health sexual-predator texas-law Can a person be unable to control his dangerousness, thus rendering him eligible for civil commitment as a sexual predator, but simultaneously be able…
22-5504 Rafael Villanueva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment commerce-clause competency criminal-procedure due-process mental-capacity Whether the trial court and the Fifth Circuit erred in finding the petitioner competent to stand trial, violating his due process rights
22-5466 Leonard Andrew v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP significant intellectual deficit and reduced ment criminal-sentencing downward-departure intellectual-deficit judicial-discretion mental-capacity reduced-mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines USSG-5H1.3 USSG-5K2.13 Whether a sentencing court must meaningfully address a defendant's request for a downward departure pursuant to USSG §§ 5H1.3 and 5K2.13 when he has a…
21-7570 Vander Clayborne v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-04-07 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea juvenile-justice mental-capacity mental-competency miller-v-alabama parole sentencing Should this Court review the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to deny the Petitioner the right to have his unwarranted guilty plea looked in…
21-6693 Joey Rogers v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-12-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (8)IFP constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competence plea-bargaining plea-coercion sentencing sixth-amendment Were the Due Process rights of Joey Rogers ignored?
20-8174 Esad Lemo v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability language-access language-interpretation mental-capacity police-interrogation right-to-interpretation sixth-amendment Is the Constitution violated where a defendant who speaks only Bosnian and has an IQ of 57 receives no interpretation during the suppression hearing t…
20-8051 Lucas Kenneth Sabatino v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defense criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity prejudicial-error sixth-amendment trial-strategy Whether defense counsel committed prejudicial ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to raise issues relating to defendant's mental capacity at …
20-5163 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the crimi…
20-5169 Randy A. Thomas v. Ohio Ohio 2020-07-24 Denied IFP developmental-delay fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel low-iq mental-capacity self-defense sixth-amendment social-security Is counsel ineffective under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments when no investigation is conducted pre-trial concerning the client's developmental-de…
20-5165 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP civil-commitment criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity sanity Whether the State of Texas caused a fundamental miscarriage of justice by refusing to overturn a criminal sentence despite evidence of lack of mental …
20-5164 Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas Texas 2020-07-24 Denied IFP civil-commitment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the crimi…
19-8013 Keith Alexander v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-03-17 Denied IFP criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-ineffective-assistance-of-couns criminal-sentencing due-process federal-appellate-review firearms ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-interpretation mandatory-minimum mental-capacity sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-construction whether-the-court-erred-by-denying-defendant's-petition-for-writ-of-coram-nobis
19-7310 Michael Charles Smith v. Florida Florida 2020-01-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-confession medication-effects medication-impairment mental-capacity narcotic-medication physical-condition psychological-coercion voluntariness Whether a conviction resulting from a confession that was not freely and voluntarily given due to the accused's physical condition and impact of narco…
19-6507 Kenneth Michael Smith v. Melissa Sue Smith, nka Melissa Sue Graham Montana 2019-11-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights disability-law domestic-relations due-process family-law guardian-ad-litem guardianship mental-capacity standing Does an overly-intrusive and nature-based constitutional violation justify appointing a guardian ad litem in domestic-relations cases?
19-5717 Ronnie C. Brown v. Jeff Macomber, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mental-capacity mental-illness pro-se pro-se-petition Is equitable tolling available for a late-filed pro se habeas petition due to mental illness?
19-5646 Brian Caputo v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-capacity cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-plea-bargaining due-process knowing-intelligent-waiver mental-capacity neurological-impairment neurology plea-agreement Does a defendant knowingly, voluntarily, and intelligently enter into a plea agreement where he is neurologically incapable of understanding the futur…
19-5500 Michael Woolls v. Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights code-of-law disability-rights due-process equal-protection mental-capacity mental-retardation political-concerns standard-of-review standing Am I entitled by law to a higher standard of review as a disabled person with mental retardation?
19-5477 Brian Keith Waugh v. MedStar Georgetown University Hospital District of Columbia 2019-08-06 Denied IFP amended-complaint civil-procedure due-process en-banc-review interests-of-justice medical-malpractice mental-capacity notice notice-pleading rule-15c statute-of-limitations Can the filing of a claim(s) in an Amended Complaint serve as Notice characteristic of State and Federal Rules and Civil Procedures' Rule 15(c) Notice…
19-5319 William J. Barnes Jr. v. New York New York 2019-07-24 Denied IFP appellate-review competency constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel insanity-defense mental-capacity mental-competency structural-error trial-procedure Did the county court deprive the petitioner of his due process and constitutional right to a full and fair impartial determination of his mental capac…
18-9084 Edward JoRodge Gladney v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure diminished-capacity due-process evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity plea-bargaining plea-voluntariness sentencing sentencing-mitigation Whether the district court erred or abused its discretion by failing to hold an evidentiary hearing after grant of COA on contested factual allegation…
18-9009 Mirella Landi Adelman v. Lawrence Root, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-planning false-information guardianship legal-document mental-capacity personal-estate petition probate standing Whether the request or petition for guardianship for the person and estate of Daniel Lindsey Adelman was submitted under false information and should …
18-8893 Mark M. Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-review criminal-procedure impairment mental-capacity mental-impairment probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-motion trustworthiness warrant warrant-issuance witness witness-credibility witness-testimony Does probable cause to issue a warrant extend to situations where a witness to alleged criminal behavior was severely impaired?
18-7876 Jordie L. Callahan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 6th-amendment competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-counsel effective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency mental-evaluation sixth-amendment Whether a Mentally Deficient Defendant is Entitled to a Competency Hearing or Mental Evaluation
18-7654 Steven Fausnaught v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights due-process in-camera-review judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct medical-records mental-capacity recusal separation-of-powers standing Whether the district court is required to undertake an In Camera review of District Court Judge Edwin Kosik's medical records to determine the onset o…
18-7279 Christian Thomas v. District Attorney of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights collateral-review constitutional-review due-process eighth-amendment federal-question graham grant juvenile-sentencing mental-capacity miller sixth-amendment teague Whether a federal question is raised by a claim that a state collateral review erroneously failed to find a Teague, Graham, and Grant case and Miller …
18-6084 Sharon Lee v. Florida Florida 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel manifest-injustice mental-capacity plea-bargaining Was the petitioner's constitutional rights violated when the petitioner unknowingly and unintelligently accepted a plea to a second degree murder char…
18-6081 Manuel Enrique Camacho v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP cognitive-impairment competency criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-capacity mental-competency psychiatric-evaluation psychiatric-report Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to determine if Mr. Camacho was competent to enter a guilty plea
18-5763 Jimmy Don Wooten v. Arkansas Arkansas 2018-08-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diligence-standard due-process insanity insanity-defense jurisdiction legal-diligence mental-capacity mental-handicap procedural-fairness standing Did the Arkansas Supreme Court violate due process by denying mentally handicapped petitioner opportunity to litigate insanity at time of trial?
18-5416 Ramal Hammond v. Ohio Ohio 2018-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP amnesia burden-of-proof competency criminal-procedure defendant-amnesia due-process dusky-standard dusky-v-united-states mental-capacity right-to-counsel sixth-amendment trial-competency When the evidence of guilt is far from overwhelming but cannot be rebutted without information that only the defendant would know, but due to amnesia …
18-5328 Muffin Anderson v. Susan A. Larsen Washington 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fair-hearing jury-trial mental-capacity mental-disability physical-capacity procedural-fairness stare-decisis summary-judgment Did the trial court violate the Americans with Disabilities Act and the plaintiff's constitutional rights when it denied the plaintiff's request for a…