mental-state-defense

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
21-6986 John Atlas, Jr. v. Patrick Covello, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-street-gang criminal-threats due-process ineffective-assistance intent life-sentence mental-state mental-state-defense schizophrenia trial-counsel Whether Petitioner John Atlas, Jr. stated a prima facie case of ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
21-6908 Jessie Flores v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP competence-to-stand-trial competency-to-stand-trial criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-health-defense mental-state-defense psychosis specific-intent substance-abuse willful-deliberate-and-premeditated-murder Does defense counsel unreasonably fail to investigate and present a mental state defense to a charge of willful, deliberate and premeditated murder?
20-1490 Quinn Alexander Marez v. Kathleen Allison, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 federal-court federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-state-defense procedural-requirements state-court state-court-review May a federal court substitute its own reasons for denying a habeas petition when the state court's reasons were legally in error?