No. 19-5988

Tyrone Chalmers v. Tennessee

Lower Court: Tennessee
Docketed: 2019-09-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP Experienced Counsel
Tags: atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons
Key Terms:
DueProcess Punishment
Latest Conference: 2019-11-22
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state can thwart the constitutional prohibition against executing intellectually disabled offenders by failing to provide a procedural vehicle for adjudicating an Atkins exemption claim

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Where a petitioner establishes uncontested proof that despite effort he repeated the first grade and was enrolled in special education in the second grade; that his reading has never advanced beyond a fourth grade level; that he cannot tell time using an analog clock; that he cannot understand or work with money; that he has never been able to navigate beyond a one-mile radius of his childhood home: that his IQ score is between 67 and 75; that his disabilities existed prior to his eighteenth birthday; and where this Court declared in Moore v. Texas, “States may not execute anyone in ‘the entire category of [intellectually disabled] offenders” may a state thwart the Constitutional prohibition against execution of the intellectually disabled by failing to provide a procedural vehicle for the adjudication of an Atkins exemption claim? Moore v. Texas, 137 S.Ct. 1039, 1051 (2017) (emphasis in original) (quoting Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, 563-63 (2005)). i

Docket Entries

2019-11-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-11-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/22/2019.
2019-10-18
Brief of respondent Tennessee in opposition filed.
2019-09-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 18, 2019)
2019-08-18
Application (19A182) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until September 16, 2019.
2019-08-14
Application (19A182) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 15, 2019 to October 14, 2019, submitted to Justice Sotomayor.

Attorneys

Tennessee
Benjamin Anthony BallOffice of Tennessee Attorney General, Respondent
Benjamin Anthony BallOffice of Tennessee Attorney General, Respondent
Tyrone Chalmers
Kelley Jane HenryFederal Public Defender, Middle District of Tennessee, Petitioner
Kelley Jane HenryFederal Public Defender, Middle District of Tennessee, Petitioner