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24 Jul 2012, 12:24 pm by Steve Hall
The Supreme Court established standards to assess whether severely mentally ill inmates are competent to be executed in a 1986 case, Ford v. [read post]
15 Jun 2012, 9:36 am by Steve Hall
  We've seen considerable coverage lately involving the question of competency to be executed; a standard laid out by the Supreme Court in Ford v. [read post]
6 Jun 2012, 7:32 am by Steve Hall
The Supreme Court established standards to assess whether severely mentally ill inmates are competent to be executed in a 1986 case, Ford v. [read post]
14 May 2012, 7:46 am by Steve Hall
The standard is low: A defendant has to be able to understand the charges against him and consult rationally with his lawyer so he can aid in his own defense. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 12:00 am by Rick
Let’s dispense with Missouri v. [read post]
9 Feb 2012, 1:01 pm by Steve Hall
But skilled prosecution psychologists may well be able to convince a jury that the defendant is able to carry out complex tasks and that he or she is not intellectually disabled at all, when, in reality, the defendant may be seriously impaired in all but a few domains. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 11:35 am by John Richards
This is sometimes called a “Civil Gideon” rule, which refers to the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 2:51 pm by Thomas McDow
As a practical matter, lawyers reject many cases of clients who are able and willing to pay because the case is not economically viable. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 12:56 pm by Jessie Canon
A unanimous Supreme Court overruled longstanding precedent established in Betts v. [read post]
4 Nov 2010, 7:29 am by Steve Hall
And: The Supreme Court has ruled that states cannot execute someone who is not able to understand why they are being executed. [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 5:37 am by Lawrence Solum
It shows that the relative conservatism of contemporary criminal procedure doctrine can, paradoxically, be traced to the Warren Court’s creation of a fully incorporated right to counsel in Gideon v. [read post]