McWilliams v. Dunn

James E. McWilliams was an incarcerated person on death row. He was convicted of various crimes including murder, rape, and robbery. The crime that landed him on death row was the 1984 sexual assault and murder of Patricia Reynolds.

The Court ruled 5–4 in favor of Williams on the grounds of the defendant not having access to an independent mental health expert during his trial with the lower appellate court not considering this in the previous appeal, as written in the opinion authored by Justice Breyer. In 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted McWilliams a new sentencing hearing. As of 2021, McWilliams has since been removed from death row and is now serving a life sentence.