No. 21-8144

Tavares J. Wright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2022-06-15
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas
Key Terms:
AdministrativeLaw DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus Securities
Latest Conference: 2022-09-28
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether failing to apply the Flynn effect to a capital defendant's intelligence quotient scores violates the Eighth Amendment

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED Question One Whether failing to apply the Flynn effect to a capital defendant’s intelligence quotient scores in cases where the scores were formulated from tests that used older or outdated norms violates the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, and Moore v. Texas by disregarding the relevant medical guidance and creating an unacceptable risk that individuals with intellectual disability will be executed? Question Two Whether Florida’s requirement that a capital defendant prove his intellectual disability by clear and convincing evidence violates the Fifth Amendment, the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, Cooper v. Oklahoma, Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, and Moore v. Texas by creating an unacceptable risk that individuals with intellectual disability will be executed?

Docket Entries

2022-10-03
Petition DENIED.
2022-07-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2022.
2022-07-13
Brief of respondent Ricky D. Dixon Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections in opposition filed.
2022-06-13
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 15, 2022)
2022-03-10
Application (21A474) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until June 15, 2022.
2022-03-03
Application (21A474) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from May 16, 2022 to July 15, 2022, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Tavares J. Wright
Adrienne Joy ShepherdCapital Collateral Regional Counsel, Petitioner