Smith v. Davis

Docket Number18-70015
Decision Date13 June 2019
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11 cases
  • Johnson v. Lumpkin
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Northern District of Texas
    • March 23, 2022
    ...adopt a strategy that prevented Dr. Proctor from evaluating Johnson and opining at trial that Johnson exhibited ASPD. Smith v. Davis , 927 F.3d 313, 337 (5th Cir. 2019) (defense counsel acted reasonably in choosing not to present mental health evidence because doing so could have opened the......
  • Green v. Davis
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Northern District of Texas
    • September 27, 2019
    ...rejected arguments that the Eighth Amendment bars states from executing those who are mentally ill. See, e.g., Smith v. Davis , 927 F.3d 313, 339 (5th Cir. 2019) (rejecting the argument that the severely mentally ill lack sufficient moral culpability to permit a sentence of death); Rockwell......
  • Holberg v. Davis
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Northern District of Texas
    • August 13, 2021
    ... ... the correct governing legal principle from the Supreme ... Court's decisions but unreasonably applies that principle ... to the facts of the petitioner's case. Brown , ... 544 U.S. at 141; Wiggins v. Smith , 539 U.S. 510, 520 ... (2003). A federal court making the “unreasonable ... application” inquiry should ask whether the state ... court's application of clearly established federal law ... was “objectively unreasonable.” McDaniel v ... Brown , 558 U.S. 120, ... ...
  • Williams v. Lumpkin
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Northern District of Texas
    • May 21, 2021
    ...Hopkins v. Cockrell 325 F.3d 579, 586 (5th Cir. 2003) ), cert. denied , 140 S. Ct. 1107, 206 L.Ed.2d 179 (2020) ; Smith v. Davis , 927 F.3d 313, 337 (5th Cir. 2019) (defense counsel acted reasonably in choosing not to present mental health evidence because doing so could have opened the doo......
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