mental-incompetency

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5129 Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-07-16 Denied IFP common-law-prohibition competency-to-execute cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ford-standard mental-incompetency Whether a state may refuse to provide a process by which a state inmate may prove that he is not competent to be executed because he meets the common …
20-8304 Lee Goston v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2021-06-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appealability appellate-review due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-incompetency statutory-interpretation time-bar Question not identified
20-6695 Lori Anna Massey v. MultiCare Health System, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights disability-law due-process legal-incompetency mental-incompetency physical-disability statute-of-limitations time-bar tolling Should no time limit apply?
19-8264 Paul M. Gordon v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process fair-trial judicial-procedure legal-standard mental-competency mental-incompetency sentencing Is it a constitutional violation of due process to have been sentenced while mentally incompetent?
18-7117 Charles J. Mayberry v. Michael A. Dittman, Warden Seventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus holland-v-florida mental-incompetency statute-of-limitations Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals contravenes this Court's precedent in Holland v. Florida