mental-incompetence

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6971 D. R. v. T. R. Hawaii 2025-04-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law family-court-dispute federal-criminal-law judicial-corruption mental-incompetence Whether a mentally incompetent father can challenge the Hawaii state judiciary's alleged constitutional and civil rights violations through a Supreme …
23-6721 Jerry Scott Heidler v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-12 Denied IFP actual-conflict-of-interest certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit habeas habeas-corpus martinez-v-ryan mental-competency mental-incompetence procedural-dismissal trial-counsel Whether the Eleventh Circuit imposed an erroneously high standard when it denied a COA to address the petitioner's claims
23-6451 Travis Dwight Green v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied IFP abandonment attorney-abandonment cause cause-doctrine circuit-split federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus maples-v-thomas mental-incompetence procedural-default standard-of-review Are a district court's findings on habeas abandonment subject to clear error review?
22-1070 Stanford James Stelle, III v. California California 2023-05-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) competency competency-hearing criminal-defendant criminal-procedure drope-v-missouri due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-competency mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson successive-review Does California's heightened standard for a successive competency hearing violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
21-6444 In Re James Joseph Knochel 2021-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus inaccessibility judicial-process medical-rights mental-incompetence next-friend next-friend-standing standing May a next friend be declared vexatious without considering evidence of fraud on the court?
21-5645 In Re Donald Mack 2021-09-10 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-incompetence pate-v-robinson procedural-rules Can a mentally incompetent defendant challenge his conviction under the Fourteenth Amendment despite procedural rules?
21-5003 Don Edward Carter v. Shawn Phillips, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-02 Denied IFP due-process equitable-tolling federal-habeas-corpus federal-question habeas-corpus mental-incompetence post-conviction sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decision was an important question of federal law that has not been, but should be, settled by this Court, …
19-7588 Aleksandr Bible v. United States Federal Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction mental-incompetence standing statute-of-limitations takings tolling Whether the statute of limitations for filing a federal action should be tolled due to the petitioner's mental incompetence at the time the claim accr…
18-8984 Nathan Caetano v. Suzanne M. Peery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa burden-of-proof civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus mental-competency mental-incompetence ninth-circuit-precedent ninth-circuit-test retrospective-competency-determination retrospective-determination state-action structural-error Whether a retrospective competency determination where mental incompetence is the impediment is permissible under AEDPA(4)(B)
18-6595 John Smith v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-07 Denied IFP appeal-dismissal due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment in-forma-pauperis mental-incompetence prisoner-rights Does treating a dismissed appeal of a mentally incompetent prisoner's case, who in good faith, untimely filed a motion to proceed in forma pauperis, c…
18-6147 Macking Nettles v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa due-process guilty-plea habeas-corpus mental-incompetence procedural-bar substantive-due-process time-limit Whether a procedural bar or the AEDPA time limit apply to the substantive due process mental incompetence issue that petitioner plead guilty while men…