mental-health-expert

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-959 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi 2025-03-06 Denied Relisted (2) ake-standard due-process habeas-corpus mental-health-expert sentencing-mitigation supreme-court-precedent In Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), this Court clearly established that the State must provide indigent criminal defendants whose mental condition…
24-910 Charles Ray Crawford v. Burl Cain, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-02-24 Denied ake-standard due-process ineffective-assistance insanity-defense mental-health-expert sixth-amendment In Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), this Court clearly established that the State must provide indigent criminal defendants whose mental condition…
24-6207 Daniel Cohen v. James Hill, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-health-expert state-court-review I. Whether this Court should resolve the question left open in Brumfield v. Cain, 576 U.S. 305, 312 (2015): Where a state court refused funds for a me…
22-6217 Steven Wayne Keefe v. Montana Montana 2022-12-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP adequate-defense ake-v-oklahoma constitutional-rights due-process expert-assistance juvenile-offender juvenile-sentencing mental-health mental-health-expert miller-v-alabama sentencing This petition presents the following question: whether the "basic tools of an adequate defense" include expert assistance in "evaluation, preparation,…
19-871 Raheem Chabezz Johnson v. Jeffery Kiser, Warden Virginia 2020-01-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) ake-v-oklahoma due-process indigent-defendant mcwilliams-v-dunn mental-health mental-health-expert sentencing sentencing-phase Whether an indigent defendant who seeks the appointment of a mental conditions expert to assist in the sentencing phase of his trial is denied due pro…
24A1143 Richard Gerald Jordan v. Mississippi Mississippi Denied ake-v-oklahoma capital-punishment due-process mcwilliams-v-dunn mental-health-expert sixth-amendment Whether the Mississippi Supreme Court's refusal to apply this Court's precedent in McWilliams v. Dunn, 582 U.S. 183 (2017), which clarified that Ake v…