| 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… |