not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-6078 Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina South Carolina 2023-11-21 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing due-process eighth-amendment insanity-defense jury jury-instructions not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity voir-dire 1. Whether the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendment require that a jury, as the sentencer in a capital case, be told the truth about the effect…
21-957 Marci M. Webber v. Illinois Illinois 2021-12-30 Denied Response Waived civil-rights confinement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-detention ngri not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity Whether a State's indefinite confinement of an NGRI acquittee, who is no longer psychotic, mentally ill, a danger to herself or others, or in need of …
19-7870 Louis Ivester Peets v. Robert W. Fox, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus insanity-defense ninth-circuit ninth-circuit-review not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity procedural-bar schlup-gateway schlup-test Whether newly presented evidence of insanity would constitute 'actual innocence' to allow passage through Schlup's actual innocence gateway