atkins-claim
24 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-5749 | Victor Saldano v. Texas | Texas | 2025-09-29 | Pending | IFP | atkins-claim due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability procedural-bar state-court-review | Does the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' novel procedural interpretation preclude federal review of an Atkins claim where experts unanimously agree o… |
| 25-5214 | Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2025-07-28 | Denied | IFP | atkins-claim death-penalty federal-precedent intellectual-disability liberty-interest state-procedure | May a lower court deprive a death-sentenced prisoner his liberty interest to access a state-created procedure designed to correct injustice by refusin… |
| 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… | |
| 25A53 | Victor Saldano v. Texas | Texas | 2025-07-14 | Presumed Complete | atkins-claim competency-to-execute death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an individual with intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia when multiple experts, inc… | |
| 24-6798 | Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2025-03-18 | Denied | Amici (2)IFP | aedpa-standard atkins-claim death-penalty federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court-adjudication | Whether a claim has been adjudicated on the merits by a state court under § 2254(d), where the defendant did not present a federal claim for relief an… |
| 24A124 | Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas | Texas | 2024-08-04 | Denied | atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-row inmate with intellectual disability when new clinical evidence demonstrates he mee… | |
| 24-5221 | Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas | Texas | 2024-08-04 | Denied | IFP | atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty diagnostic-criteria hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas-i moore-v-texas-ii procedural-review supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals' refusal to authorize plenary review of an unrebutted prima facie case of intellectual disability rendered… |
| 23-7085 | Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-03-27 | Denied | IFP | atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment flynn-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-default | Where a state habeas court considers the merits of a defaulted counsel claim to decide whether statutorily required post-conviction counsel was ineffe… |
| 23A508 | Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-05 | Presumed Complete | atkins-claim death-penalty exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60b | Whether a death row inmate with an intellectual disability claim under Atkins v. Virginia can seek federal habeas relief through a Rule 60(b) motion a… | |
| 22-6964 | Arthur Brown, Jr. v. Texas | Texas | 2023-03-08 | Denied | IFP | atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-precedent moore-v-texas procedural-bar texas-criminal-code-article-11.071-section-5(a)(1) | Is Mr. Brown entitled to a merits review of his Atkins claim under federal law, Moore I and Moore II, and was the procedural bar asserted by the Texas… |
| 22-6570 | Richard Galvan Montiel v. Kevin Chappell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | IFP | atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | where-a-capitally-sentenced-habeas-corpus-petitioner-relies-on-uncontradicted-strickland-mitigating-evidence-and-united-states-district-court-findings… |
| 21-6428 | Danny Lee Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (18)IFP | atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnoses federal-review habeas-corpus historical-evidence intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice present-functioning state-court-review | Whether a state court unreasonably applies Atkins v. Virginia when it focuses on the individual's 'present functioning' in a prison environment, disco… |
| 20-5563 | Richard Bays v. Tim Shoop, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | IFP | aedpa atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia certificate-of-appealability death-penalty habeas-corpus hall-v-florida ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas | Whether Petitioner was improperly denied the right to amend his federal habeas corpus petition to include a claim that he is intellectually disabled |
| 19-5988 | Tyrone Chalmers v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2019-09-18 | Denied | IFP | 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 | Whether a state can thwart the constitutional prohibition against executing intellectually disabled offenders by failing to provide a procedural vehic… |
| 19-5682 | In Re Gary Ray Bowles | 2019-08-22 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2244 atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty habeas-corpus intellectual-disability successive-habeas-petition successive-petition writ-of-certiorari | Should this Court use its power to grant a writ of habeas corpus to a capital defendant who has no other available forum to raise his compelling claim… | |
| 19-5653 | Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-21 | Denied | IFP | 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review | When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by federal law, sh… |
| 18-9262 | David Wood v. Texas | Texas | 2019-05-14 | Denied | IFP | atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas | Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments tolerate the execution of a person whose claim of intellectual disability has been expressly decided under an … |
| 18-7332 | James Dellinger v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2019-01-09 | Denied | IFP | atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons | Whether a state may thwart the constitutional prohibition against execution of the intellectually disabled by failing to provide a procedural vehicle … |
| 18-553 | Juliet Yackel v. South Dakota, et al. | South Dakota | 2018-10-29 | Denied | atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia conflict-of-interest counsel-representation death-penalty death-penalty-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas | Whether Rodney Berget was arbitrarily deprived of conflict-free counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when his counsel determined not to fi… | |
| 18-6315 | David Ivy v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2018-10-16 | Denied | IFP | atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-mechanism roper-v-simmons state-procedure | Where this Court has declared, States may not execute anyone in the entire category of [intellectually disabled] offenders. Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct.… |
| 24A308 | Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | Denied | atkins-claim eighth-amendment equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability successive-habeas | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when his court-appointed counsel failed to timely investi… | ||
| 25A280 | David Joseph Pittman v. Florida | Florida | Denied | atkins-claim death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-bar | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when state courts have arbitrarily applied time bars that… | ||
| 24A302 | Garcia Glen White v. Texas | Texas | Denied | atkins-claim death-penalty dna-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a state court to provide an evidentiary hearing on claims of intellectual disability and newly discovered sc… | ||
| 25A693 | Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. | Florida | Denied | atkins-claim constitutional-interpretation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability | Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when state courts have arbitrarily interpreted federal la… |