stun-belt

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-5926 Charles Chitat Ng v. California California 2022-10-27 Denied IFP confrontation-clause due-process extradition-hearing fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-representation sixth-amendment stun-belt Was petitioner deprived of due-process, self-representation, fair-trial, confrontation
22-5123 Kevin Brazelton v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment courtroom-decorum due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment sixth-amendment stun-belt Were the Petitioner's federal due process rights violated when the trial court denied a mistrial after the Petitioner was electrically shocked in fron…
19-6918 Michael Wade Nance v. Benjamin Ford, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied IFP capital-punishment capital-sentencing circuit-split constitutional-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mitigation-strategy record-evidence strickland-v-washington stun-belt trial-counsel Whether courts must consider the record evidence in determining the reasonableness of trial counsel's actions, or can deem them strategic and reasonab…
18-5490 Mark Madison Lowe v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion sixth-amendment stun-belt trial-procedure Whether the imposition of a RACC Stun belt with secret instructions to compel testimony, alter testimony, and remain silent during trial infringed upo…