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Dusky v. United States case details
-Milton Dusky, a 33-year-old man, was charged with assisting in the rape of an underage female and kidnapping. He was clearly suffering from schizophrenia but was found Competent to Stand Trial and received a sentence of 45 years. The petitioner requested that his conviction be reversed on the grounds that he was not competent to stand trial at the time of the proceeding.
Dusky v. United States (1960) Competency to Stand Trial
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court affirmed a defendant’s right to have a competency evaluation before proceeding to trial.
MacCAT-CA - competency to stand trial
is a 22-item structured interview for the pretrial assessment of adjudicative competence.
- Uses a vignette format and objectively scored questions to standardize the measurement of three competence-related abilities: understanding, reasoning, and appreciation.
M’Naghten’s Case (1843) - sentencing
set out that the accused may be adjudged “not guilty by reason of insanity” or “guilty but insane.”
M’Naghten’s Case (1843) _ case details
Daniel M’Naghten was a Scottish man who assassinated English civil servant Edward Drummond while suffering from paranoid delusions and mistaking him for Prime Minister Robert Peel. Through his trial, he was given his name to the legal test of criminal insanity in England and other common law jurisdictions known as the M’Naghten Rules.
Durham v. United States (1954) -sentencing
Monte Durham was convicted of housebreaking by the District Court sitting without a jury. The Durham Rule or “product test” was established and states that “an accused is not criminally responsible if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or defect.” Durham was later overturned in the case U.S. v. Brawner with the argument that it places emphasis on “mental disease or defect” and is thus ambiguous.
American Law Institute’s Model Penal Code -sentencing
a statutory text which was developed by the American Law Institute in 1962.
The purpose of the MPC was to stimulate and assist legislatures in making an effort to update and standardize the penal law of the United States.
Primary responsibility for criminal law lies with the individual states, and such national efforts to work to produce similar laws in different jurisdictions.
The MPC has played an important role in standardizing the codified penal laws of the United States.
Insanity Defense Reform Act (1984) -sentencing
This was a law passed in the wake of public outrage after John Hinckley, Jr. was acquitted for the Reagan assassination attempt.
*It amended the U.S. federal laws governing defendants with mental diseases or defects to make it significantly more difficult to obtain a verdict of not guilty only by reason of insanity
Furman v. Georgia (1972) -sentencing
A United States Supreme Court decision that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalt
Furman v. Georgia (1972) -case details
- William Henry Furman was found guilty for murder and sentenced to death, but the punishment was never carried out.
- This case led to a de facto moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States.
Woodson v. North Carolina (1976) -sentencing
North Carolina enacted legislation that made the death penalty mandatory for all convicted first-degree murderers.
- When James Woodson was found guilty of such an offense, he was automatically sentenced to death.
- Woodson challenged the law, which was upheld by the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
Gregg v. Georgia (1976) -sentencing
This case reaffirmed the U.S. Supreme Court’s acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States, upholding, in particular, the death sentence imposed on Troy Leon Gregg.
Gregg v. Georgia (1976) -case details
-The Supreme Court set forth the two main features that capital sentencing procedures must employ, and the decision ended the de facto moratorium on the death penalty imposed by the Court in 1972.
Lockett v. Ohio (1978) -sentencing
As a result, the U.S. Supreme Court held that sentencing authorities must have the discretion to consider at least some mitigating factors, rather than being limited to a specific list of factors.
Lockett v. Ohio (1978) -case details
-In this case, Sandra Lockett, who had encouraged and driven the getaway car for a robbery that resulted in the murder of a pawnshop owner, was found guilty under the statute and sentenced to death.
Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988) -sentencing
The first case since the moratorium on capital punishment was lifted in the U.S. in which the Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a minor on grounds of “cruel and unusual punishment.”
Thompson v. Oklahoma (1988) -case details
-William Wayne Thompson, a 15-year-old was tried as an adult for the murder of his sister’s husband. He was found guilty and sentenced to death.
Stanford v. Kentucky (1989) -sentencing
-U.S. Supreme Court case that sanctioned the imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were at least 16 years of age at the time of the crime.
Stanford v. Kentucky (1989) -case details
Kevin Stanford (17 years and 4 months old at the time of the crime) was convicted of murder, first-degree sodomy, first-degree robbery, and receiving stolen property, and was sentenced to death and 45 years in prison.
Atkins v. Virginia (2002) -sentencing
Case in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that executing mentally retarded individuals violates the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishments.
Atkins v. Virginia (2002) -case details
-In this case, 18-year-old Daryl Atkins was found guilty for robbing and murdering a man at a convenience story. Atkins’s school records and the results of an IQ test confirmed that he had an IQ of 59, but was sentenced to death
Roper v. Simmons (2005) -sentencing
-A decision in which the Supreme Court held that it is unconstitutional to impose capital punishment for crimes committed while under the age of 18. This decision overruled the Court’s prior ruling upholding such sentences on offenders above or at the age of 16, in Stanford v. Kentucky, overturning statutes in 25 states that had the penalty set lower.
Roper v. Simmons (2005) -case details
-The case involved Christopher Simmons who, at the age of 17, concocted a plan to commit burglary and murder by breaking and entering, tying up a victim, and tossing the victim off a bridge.
Graham v. Florida (2010) -sentencing
The Supreme Court decided that juvenile offenders cannot be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for non-homicide offenses