| 25-5056 |
Edward Lee Busby, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability |
Where the clinical criteria unequivocally establish that a death row inmate is intellectually disabled, and where all the experts -- including the exp… |
| 24-6594 |
Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard death-penalty intellectual-disability procedural-hurdles retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court's procedural interpretation of Hall v. Florida circumvents the categorical prohibition against executing intellectua… |
| 24-6058 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
adaptive-behavior atkins-standard clinical-assessment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing |
Did the state court violate Atkins v. Virginia by improperly assessing intellectual disability through a single IQ score and incomplete adaptive behav… |
| 24-6042 |
David Leonard Wood v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-disqualification judicial-ethics |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires judicial disqualification when a judge presides over a case after publicly commenting on a prior ruling in the… |
| 23-7042 |
Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Georgia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability |
Can the State under Atkins v. Virginia execute a person who is intellectually disabled by all clinical standards? |
| 23-167 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-21 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (30) |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing standard-error-of-measurement |
Whether courts must deem the Atkins prong satisfied when an offender's lowest IQ score, decreased by one standard error of measurement, is 70 or below |
| 21-5800 |
Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard Atkins-v-Virginia clinical-assessment clinical-standards conflict-between-lower-courts constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing death-penalty intellectual-disability national-concern sub-average-intellectual-functioning |
Did Atkins v. Virginia require the use of clinical standards for the determination of sub-average intellectual functioning? |
| 20-6972 |
Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given … |
| 20-6769 |
Juan David Rodriguez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus scientific-authority |
Whether the disregard of medical and scientific consensus and well-established clinical authority when evaluating a claim of intellectual disability c… |
| 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… |
| 19-1191 |
Ohio v. Shawn Ford |
Ohio |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability standing state-standards supreme-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
What is the test for determining whether someone is 'intellectually disabled' for purposes of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 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 … |
| 19-7456 |
Taurus Carroll v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia brumfield-v-cain capital-punishment current-medical-standards eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas supreme-court-review |
Does the Alabama Supreme Court's continued reliance upon evidence that fails to adhere to current medical standards in rejecting Mr. Carroll's claim o… |
| 18-56 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Danny Hill |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (9) |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-judgment clinical-judgments death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Did the Sixth Circuit properly use the Moore decision from 2017 to find that an Ohio court unreasonably applied Atkins in 2008, even though the Ohio c… |