mental-impairment

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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 1. Whether the Petitioner's medical condition which includes brain damage and dementia that results in impulse control deficits, impaired executive fu…
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 Given that petitioner is from Palestine, His English has always been poor, his second language is Spanish his history with mental health in years lead…
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 1. In light of a court's duty to issue a remedy that "neutralize[s] the taint of a constitutional violation" while avoiding the grant of "a windfall t…
20-8135 Gregg McNamara v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California Ninth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-impairment sixth-amendment 1) Under the Sixth Amendment right to know the nature and the cause of the action against a person, can a person convicted while suffering from sever…
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 1. Does a criminal defendant's discovery of a recognized mental impairment after conviction at trial constitute newly discovered evidence under Federa…
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 Question not identified.
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 SEVERLY IMPAIRED? SHOULD A CIRCUIT COURT…
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 Question not identified.