| 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… |