United States Sixth Circuit

The Ohio procedure for determining whether a mentally ill convict is competent to be executed affords petitioners due process, even if not every prisoner gets an evidentiary hearing.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2001
• Published 05/18/2001

Judges

• Before BOGGS, SILER, and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Timothy F. Sweeney (briefed), John S. Pyle (briefed), Gold, Rotatori, Schwartz & Gibbons, Cleveland, OH, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James V. Canepa, David M. Gormley (briefed), Office of the Attorney General of Ohio, Stuart A. Cole, Assistant Attorney General (briefed), Columbus, OH, for Appellee.