Tompkins v. Secretary, Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that all second-in-time habeas 13 petitions based on Brady claims are second or successive
• holding that a COA should be denied where the claim “is foreclosed by a binding decision [of] this Court”
• holding absent an authorizing order, the Court has no subject-matter jurisdiction to entertain a second or successive petition
• noting the proper procedure for bringing a second or successive habeas petition is to obtain from the Eleventh Circuit an order authorizing the district court to consider the second or successive petition
• “Mental competency to be. executed is measured at the time of execution, not years.before then.... because mental conditions of prisoners vary over time.”
• “The Panetti case involved only a Ford claim, and the Court was careful to limit its holding to Ford claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).