substance-abuse

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1055 Jeremy Alan Douglass v. Arizona Arizona 2024-03-26 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substance-abuse Whether evidence of a defense attorney's impairment due to substance abuse discovered after the first petition for post-conviction relief was decided …
23A750 E.R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S.M. and E.M., Children Colorado 2024-02-15 Presumed Complete dependency-and-neglect domestic-violence mental-health parental-rights substance-abuse termination Whether a state court can terminate parental rights based on historical substance abuse, domestic violence, and mental health concerns without providi…
21-8125 Carlos Montano v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-06-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP boykin-standard change-of-plea-hearing constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process felony-conviction ninth-circuit plea-bargaining plea-hearing substance-abuse did-the-ninth-circuit-overlook-boykin-and-its-progeny
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?
21-5045 Colvis Jerrod Higgins v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP alcohol-prohibition criminal-procedure drug-treatment due-process judicial-discretion plain-error sentencing sentencing-conditions special-conditions substance-abuse supervised-release Did the district court plainly err when it imposed a special condition of supervised release requiring Mr. Higgins to abstain from alcohol and to atte…
19-689 Mark Chapman, et al. v. ACE American Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-27 Denied certification civil-procedure duty-to-defend insurance-coverage statutory-interpretation statutory-rights substance-abuse summary-judgment Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion by requiring allegations not contained in Chapter 397 and by denying petitioners' motion to certify…
19-569 Carlos Manuel Ayestas v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-10-30 Denied capital-case capital-case-mitigation-evidence ineffective-assistance mental-health mitigation-evidence mitigation-investigation professional-norms rompilla-v-beard sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington substance-abuse wiggins-v-smith Whether 'prevailing professional norms' required counsel in a capital case to investigate potential mitigation evidence, including red flags for menta…