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Senior Circuit Judge Roger Leland Wollman: inactive: 1934 1985–2018 1999–2002 2018–present Reagan: 45 Senior Circuit Judge C. Arlen Beam: inactive: 1930 1987–2001 — 2001–present Reagan: 47 Senior Circuit Judge David R. Hansen: inactive: 1938 1991–2003 2002–2003 2003–present G.H.W. Bush: 48 Senior Circuit Judge Morris S. Arnold ...
Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court affirmed a defendant's right to have a competency evaluation before proceeding to trial. [1] The Court outlined the basic standards for determining competency. [2]
The Competency Screening Test was developed by researchers at the Harvard Laboratory of Community Psychiatry in 1971. The test uses 22 fill in the blank style questions such as "If the jury finds me guilty, I will _____." Each answer is given a score of 0 (incompetent), 1 (uncertain competence), or 2 (competent).
Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166 (2003), is a decision in which the United States Supreme Court imposed stringent limits on the right of a lower court to order the forcible administration of antipsychotic medication to a criminal defendant who had been determined to be incompetent to stand trial for the sole purpose of making them competent and able to be tried.
The latest test to landmark civil rights law is a ‘travesty for democracy’ that could head to the Supreme Court
Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning, 455 F.3d 859 (8th Cir. 2006), was a federal lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska and decided on appeal by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas (in case citations, E.D. Ark.) is a federal court in the Eighth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).
The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by seven Republican-led states to put on hold parts of the U.S. Department of Education's debt relief plan that had not ...