mental-health-mitigation

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
21-7234	Dylann Storm Roof v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2022-03-01	Denied	IFP	6th-amendment capital-defendant constitutional-rights counsel counsel-authority defense-strategy due-process mental-health-mitigation mental-illness mitigating-evidence trial-procedure	When a competent capital defendant and his counsel disagree on whether to present mitigating evidence depicting him as mentally ill, who gets the fina…
19-5430	Christopher Devon Jackson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division	Fifth Circuit	2019-08-01	Denied	IFP	capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mental-health mental-health-mitigation mitigation wiggins-v-smith	Whether the Fifth Circuit applied an overly restrictive standard for granting a certificate of appealability (COA) where the district court found that…
18A1349	Pennsylvania v. Milton Montalvo	Pennsylvania	2019-06-21	Presumed Complete		capital-sentencing death-penalty eighth-amendment ineffective-assistance jury-recommendation mental-health-mitigation	Whether a prosecutor's and trial court's statements characterizing a jury's capital sentencing verdict as a mere 'recommendation' constitute a violati…