No. 24-7151

Zane Michael Floyd v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al.

Lower Court: Nevada
Docketed: 2025-05-06
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: atkins-ruling capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus
Key Terms:
Punishment HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a state may constitutionally execute a defendant who meets the strict medical standard for severe brain damage caused by fetal alcohol exposure

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Capital Case) A national medical consensus finds severe brain damage caused by fetal alcohol exposure functionally equivalent and symptomatically identical to intellectual disability. The question presented is: Whether , given this medical consensus, the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment , and this Court’s rulings in Atkins and Roper, a state may constitutionally execute a defendant who meets the strict medical standard for severe brain damage caused by fetal alcohol exposure ?

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-06-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-06-13
Reply of Zane Floyd submitted.
2025-06-13
Reply of petitioner Zane Micheal Floyd, filed.
2025-06-03
Brief of The State of Nevada in opposition submitted.
2025-06-03
Brief of respondent Nevada in opposition filed.
2025-05-02
2025-04-17
Application (24A984) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until May 5, 2025.
2025-04-11
Application (24A984) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 24, 2025 to May 5, 2025, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

The State of Nevada
Alexander Ga-King ChenClark County District Attorney's Office, Respondent
Zane Floyd
David Severen AnthonyFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner