adaptive-functioning
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23-639 | Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-13 | Denied | adaptive-functioning capital-punishment circuit-split eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing moore-v-texas | Whether a court may disregard a valid IQ test with a range under 70 simply because not all tests show such a range, or must proceed to evaluate adapti… | |
| 19-8598 | Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Keith Yordy, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | IFP | adaptive-functioning adaptive-skills atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-standards eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-scores standard-error-of-measurement | Whether Atkins and the Eighth Amendment mandated the use of clinical standards for the determination of subaverage intelligence as measured by intelli… |
| 19-1106 | Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Roderick L. Smith | Tenth Circuit | 2020-03-10 | Denied | Relisted (2) | adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia death-penalty-appeals habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity teague-v-lane tenth-circuit | Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in concluding that Moore v. Texas I and II were mere applications of Atkins v. Virginia that could be applied retroact… |
| 19-7699 | Anthony Carr v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2020-02-19 | Denied | IFP | adaptive-functioning atkins atkins-standard criminal-sentencing diagnostic-criteria due-process intellectual-disability medical-expert-criteria medical-experts supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation | Did the Mississippi Supreme Court establish an erroneous legal standard when it held that proof of intellectual disability in Atkins cases requires a … |
| 18-8653 | Tavares J. Wright v. Florida | Florida | 2019-04-01 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 8th-amendment adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas | Does the Florida Supreme Court's adaptive functioning analysis of intellectually disabled individuals violate the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendm… |