clinical-standards
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), require the use of clinical standards for the determination of sub-average intellectual functioning? |
| 20-7805 | Melvin Knight v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-04-20 | Denied | Relisted (13)IFP | brumfield-v-cain clinical-standards death-penalty documentation-requirement intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas supreme-court-precedent | Whether a State may require a defendant to present an IQ score of 75 or below that was "documented prior to age 18" to have his intellectual disabilit… |
| 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 | 1. In determining intellectual disability, at the time of the pertinent state court decision in 2008, whether Atkins and the Eighth Amendment mandated… |
| 18-443 | Bobby James Moore v. Texas | Texas | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (5) | capital-punishment clinical-criteria clinical-standards criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability lay-stereotypes medical-standards moore-v-texas | 1. Whether the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decision in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) prohibit relying on non-clinical criteria and lay … |