Brewer v. Lewis

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Mrs. Elsie Brewer appeals the district court’s decision denying her standing to file a “next friend” petition for habeas corpus seeking to avoid her son’s execution principally on the ground that he is incompetent. She asks this court to issue a certificate of probable cause and a stay of his execution, now scheduled for March 3, 1993, at 12:01 a.m.

*1028On February 19, 1993, the day after she was finally denied relief from the state courts in Arizona, Mrs. Brewer filed a ha-beas petition with the district court. This is the first federal petition for relief that has been filed on behalf of this…