mental-impairment
10 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5904 | Allen Ward Cox v. Florida | Florida | 2024-11-04 | Denied | IFP | brain-damage cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment evolving-standards medical-condition mental-impairment | Whether the Petitioner's medical condition involving brain damage and dementia constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment bas… |
| 23-5474 | Abder Salim v. Stephen Kennedy, Superintendent, Old Colony Correctional Center | First Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dna-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health mental-impairment procedural-default successive-petition tolling tolling-doctrine | Should the lateness of the habeas petition be excused due to the petitioner's mental health issues and the DNA evidence? |
| 22-7625 | Michael Tisius v. David Vandergriff, Warden | Missouri | 2023-05-24 | Denied | IFP | brain-development criminal-responsibility cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment juvenile-offender juvenile-offenders mental-impairment | Do executions of persons who committed their crimes when they were under the age of 21, or, at the least, the execution of a 19-year-old offender who … |
| 22-5947 | Kevin Johnson v. Missouri | Missouri | 2022-10-31 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial death-penalty eighth-amendment juror-misconduct juvenile-justice mental-health mental-impairment racial-bias | Whether the retrial and death sentence of a 19-year-old offender with mental impairments remedied the constitutional violation from the first trial wi… |
| 20-8135 | Gregg McNamara v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-impairment sixth-amendment | Whether a person convicted while suffering from severe mental impairment can invoke the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and cause of the acti… |
| 19-7180 | Rafael Leonhard Wolfga Beier v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure mental-impairment motion-for-new-trial newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief rule-33 standard-of-review standards-for-new-trial trial-standard | Does a criminal defendant's discovery of a recognized mental impairment after conviction at trial constitute newly discovered evidence under Federal R… |
| 18A1201 | Napier Sandford Fuller v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2019-05-21 | Presumed Complete | ada-accommodations disability-rights mental-impairment pro-se-litigation reasonable-accommodations supreme-court-review | Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act requires state courts to provide reasonable accommodations for pro se litigants with documented mental imp… | |
| 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? |
| 18-8386 | Michael Apelt v. Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-12 | Denied | Amici (1)IFP | capital-punishment capital-sentencing evidentiary-hearing fact-finding federal-habeas federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness mental-impairment prejudice strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | When determining if a capital defendant was prejudiced by counsel's deficient performance during state sentencing, whether the federal court may bypas… |
| 24A771 | James D. Ford v. Florida | Florida | Denied | death-penalty developmental-age due-process eighth-amendment mental-impairment roper-exclusion | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with a mental and developmental age significantly below the age of majority at t… |