Entries tagged with “James Kahler”
Policy Issues
Mental Illness
,Mar 23, 2020
News Brief — U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Kansas Death-Row Prisoner on Right to Present an Insanity Defense
NEWS (3/23/20): U.S. Supreme Court — The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against a Kansas death-row prisoner who had argued his conviction violated due process because he had not been permitted to present an insanity defense. In a 6 – 3 decision authored by Justice Elena Kagan, the Court upheld the conviction of James Kahler for murdering his estranged wife, two teenage daughters, and a fourth family member in 2009, while in a state of severe depression from the…
Policy Issues
Mental Illness
,Representation
,United States Supreme Court
,Oct 09, 2019
Supreme Court Opens 2019 – 2020 Term with Consideration of Death Penalty Cases
The 2019 – 2020 U.S. Supreme Court term opened on October 7 with the Court declining to review challenges to death-penalty court decisions from a number of states and with the Court hearing argument in a Kansas death-penalty case raising constitutional questions about a defendant’s right to present an insanity…