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6 results for “Byron Lewis Black”
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5262 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | aedpa competency-to-be-executed ford-claim habeas-corpus mental-functioning second-or-successive-petition | Does a competency to be executed claim based upon common law "idiocy" that presents a petitioner's current mental functioning and supported by recent … |
| 25A137 | In Re Byron Lewis Black | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-01 | Denied | None | |
| 25-5214 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-07-28 | Denied | atkins-claim death-penalty federal-precedent intellectual-disability liberty-interest state-procedure | Next Term, this Court will resolve a significant dispute among the federal Circuit Courts of Appeal : "Whether and how courts may consider the cumulat… |
| 25A118 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-07-28 | Denied | atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores medical-standards | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability when their IQ scores and diagnostic evidence demons… |
| 25-5129 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-07-16 | Denied | common-law-prohibition competency-to-execute cruel-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment ford-standard mental-incompetency | Whether a state may refuse to provide a process by which a state inmate may prove that he is not competent to be executed because he meets the common … |
| 25A65 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-07-16 | Denied | None |