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25A821 Taylor Rene Parker v. Texas Texas 2026-01-16 Application capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-capacity Question not identified.
25-6357 Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. Florida 2025-12-15 Denied IFP atkins-rule constitutional-protection death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability procedural-bar 1. Has Florida's partial retroactive treatment of Hall v. Florida denied intellectually disabled people the protections of Atkins and should procedura…
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…
25-5459 Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky Kentucky 2025-08-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability Does Kentucky's postconviction procedure for determining intellectual disability violate Woodall's Fourteenth Amendment right to confront witnesses an…
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…
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 Does the Eighth Amendment prohibit the execution of an intellectually disabled death row inmate when clinical criteria and expert consensus establish …
24A1075 Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Andrew Turner, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-05-07 Presumed Complete administrative-removal americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-rights due-process intellectual-disability medicaid-act Whether the Due Process Clause protects intellectually disabled individuals from administrative removal from their homes without notice or legal repre…
24-7151 Zane Michael Floyd v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. Nevada 2025-05-06 Denied IFP atkins-ruling capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus Whether a state may constitutionally execute a defendant who meets the strict medical standard for severe brain damage caused by fetal alcohol exposur…
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…
24-872 John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-14 Granted Amici (11)Relisted (3) atkins-v-virginia criminal-procedure habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-testing preponderance-of-evidence 1. Whether, under a proper application of Atkins , a State can require a claimant to prove an IQ of 70 or less by a preponderance of the evidence. 2.…
24A675 Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida Florida 2025-01-10 Presumed Complete capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability postconviction-relief supreme-court-review Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a death-sentenced inmate with an intellectual disability claim that was rejected by the Florid…
24A637 Davone Unique Anderson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2024-12-30 Presumed Complete capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-review Whether the Eighth Amendment permits the imposition of a death sentence where the defendant's intellectual disability substantially impairs his capaci…
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…
24A347 Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas Texas 2024-10-11 Presumed Complete atkins-v-virginia capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of the death penalty for a defendant with an intellectual disability
24-5671 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-09-30 Denied IFP aedpa cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row Does the Eighth Amendment prohibition against crue eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-limitation Whether the Fifth Circuit's resolution of counsel substitution replicates the Christeson error and fails to address a potential conflict of interest i…
24-5658 Garcia Glen White v. Texas Texas 2024-09-27 Denied IFP constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas texas-criminal-procedure Do Articles 11.073 and 11.071 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure create a due process problem by preventing the presentation of evidence that mig…
24-5420 Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana Indiana 2024-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30…
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…
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…
23-7799 Esther Martin v. Indiana Indiana 2024-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency competency-to-stand-trial counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings sixth-amendment Whether counsel performed deficiently by failing to investigate and challenge an intellectually disabled defendant's competency based on known red fla…
23-7318 Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection executive-power individual-rights intellectual-disability judicial-review separation-of-powers state-sovereignty Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th…
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…
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?
23A856 Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden Georgia 2024-03-20 Denied adaptive-deficits death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing woodard-precedent Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically bars the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose IQ scores and adaptive deficits demonstrat…
23-6755 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-deference atkins-v-virginia death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-deference state-court-review supreme-court-review Whether the rule announced in Wetzel applies where the rationales offered by the state court are so dependent upon one another that they cannot be acc…
23-6655 Ralph Hall v. Anthony J. Annucci, et al. Second Circuit 2024-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-action constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review legal-procedure Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been found to be intellectual…
23-6383 Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-12-28 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards retroactivity teague-rule teague-v-lane Whether Hall's holding that the 3-pronged test for assessing intellectual disability must be informed by prevailing medical practice and standards ann…
23-6350 Brady Franklin v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause craig-precedent crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington intellectual-disability maryland-v-craig public-policy sixth-amendment witness-testimony Whether the balancing test created by Maryland v. Craig is still good law after Crawford v. Washington, and if so, whether extending its exemption for…
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…
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…
23-6149 Gary Lynn Gatlin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4241-motion competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability mental-competency mental-illness standards-of-review Should courts evaluate evidence supporting motions for competency evaluations differently when the claimed basis for incompetency is intellectual disa…
23A312 Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-10 Presumed Complete atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability jury-recommendation strickland-v-washington Whether a single raw IQ score above 70, regardless of when administered, is independently sufficient to deny a capital defendant's Atkins claim, and w…
23A276 Michael Duane Zack v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-28 Denied clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process executive-clemency fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-disability Whether the Due Process Clause requires that death-sentenced individuals have meaningful access to executive clemency proceedings that afford an oppor…
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
23-110 Anisha Ituah, by Her Guardian Angela McKay v. Austin State Hospital, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-08-03 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act deliberate-indifference disparate-treatment due-process intellectual-disability intervention-rights involuntary-commitment notice-requirements prop-207 property-taking rehabilitation-act sexual-assault sexual-assault 23-1109" summary-judgment Whether the State's taking of common HOA lands vio Whether an intellectually disabled woman who complained of rape and sexual assault while involuntarily committed to a State Hospital, but was disbelie…
22-7897 In Re Frank Walls 2023-06-29 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 eighth-amendment federal-petition habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity substantive-rule teague-v-lane Was Hall v. Florida necessarily 'made retroactive' for purposes of authorizing a successive federal habeas petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(A)?
22-7866 Frank A. Walls v. Florida Florida 2023-06-26 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment federal-authorization finality-of-mandate intellectual-disability mandate-reversal retroactivity supreme-court Must-Hall-v.-Florida-be-applied-retroactively
22-1114 James Harris, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2023-05-15 Denied death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability medically-accepted-standards moore-v-texas strickland-v-washington Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual-disability…
22-7361 Demonte Tretion Kelly v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain an implied exception for miscarriage-of-justice
22-7334 In Re Quincetta Y. Cargill 2023-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance institutional-conditions intellectual-disability legal-appeal medical-treatment mental-health procedural-challenges rules-of-court standing Where petitioner has been denied showing a probability of success on the merits
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…
22-6819 Donald Dillbeck v. Florida, et al. Florida 2023-02-20 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-florida eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-unanimity medical-community medical-consensus neurobehavioral-disorder prenatal-alcohol-exposure Whether a state court's refusal to consider a defendant's claim that he is exempt from execution under Atkins v. Virginia due to Neurobehavioral Disor…
22-6739 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on the denial of a motion that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal violates …
22-6659 Armando Lopez-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review appellate-standard concurrent-sentence gall-precedent gall-v-united-states individualized-assessment intellectual-disability judicial-explanation sentencing-courts sentencing-explanation sentencing-review Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor advanced by a def…
22-6191 John L. Lotter v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-12-01 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review constitutional-law eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity substantive-rules Did Hall and Moore I announce new substantive rules of federal constitutional law that apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
22-5906 William Lee Thompson v. Florida Florida 2022-10-25 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing retroactivity standard-error teague-rule Whether Hall v. Florida announced a new rule of constitutional law or was simply an application of Atkins v. Virginia
22-5329 Chadrick Fulks v. T. J. Watson, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-08-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 28-U.S.C-2241 28-U.S.C-2255 collateral-review death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability section-2241 section-2255 Is an intellectually disabled and death-sentenced prisoner entitled to review under 28-U.S.C-2241 because diligent counsel could not have raised this …
22-5093 Jerry Leon Haliburton v. Florida Florida 2022-07-13 Denied IFP burden-of-proof capital-punishment clear-and-convincing-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law Whether the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments permit States to impose on a capital defendant the burden of proving intellectual disability by clear and…
21-8144 Tavares J. Wright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-15 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas Whether failing to apply the Flynn effect to a capital defendant's intelligence quotient scores violates the Eighth Amendment
21-8067 Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-06-06 Denied IFP child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when his trial counsel failed to investigate and presen…
21-7929 Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas Texas 2022-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) a statut…
21-7292 James E. Walker v. Illinois Illinois 2022-03-07 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing Was prosecutorial misconduct during the State's opening argument with the use of a witness testimony about the apartment being vacant and abandoned, w…
21-1173 Joe Elton Nixon v. Florida Florida 2022-02-24 Denied Amici (1) and whether Florida's burden of proof for intelle atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-law eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability teague-rule teague-v-lane whether-the-decision-in-hail-v-florida-announced-a-new-rule-of-constitutional-law
21-7039 Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under 28 U.S.C.…
21-1021 Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction v. Alvin Bernal Jackson Eighth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Relisted (4) adaptive-skills constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidence intellectual-disability judicial-interpretation Whether courts may consider adaptive strengths in deciding whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty
21-6711 Darius Smith v. United States District of Columbia 2021-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency due-process effective-assistance guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disabilities intellectual-disability mental-competency mental-illness plea-proceeding sixth-amendment Whether Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process was violated
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…
21-782 Rodney Renia Young v. Georgia Georgia 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (4) burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law Does requiring a capital defendant to prove his intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt violate the Due Process Clause and the Eighth Amendm…
21-5854 Ernest Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden Missouri 2021-10-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP adaptive-deficits atkins-v-virginia causal-connection eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Whether a state can add a causal connection requirement to the definition of intellectual disability, ignoring Atkins and its progeny
21-466 Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas Texas 2021-09-28 Denied Amici (1) capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and this Court's precedents in rejecting a trial court's …
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?
21-5498 Raymond Concepcion v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-08-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-court juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality youth youth-culpability Whether the mandatory exclusion of murder defendants between the ages of 14 and 18 from Juvenile Court precludes individualized consideration of their…
21-5491 Alton Alexander Nolen v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2021-08-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-retardation Whether Oklahoma's procedure for litigating the issue of intellectual disability comports with the Eighth Amendment
21-5108 Victor Willis v. Illinois Illinois 2021-07-14 Denied IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who has been determined to be intelle…
20-8253 Blaine Keith Milam v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-06-08 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability statutory-limitation suspension-clause Can 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) be constitutionally interpreted to bar first-time federal habeas corpus merits review of an Eighth Amendment claim of intellec…
20-8174 Esad Lemo v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability language-access language-interpretation mental-capacity police-interrogation right-to-interpretation sixth-amendment Is the Constitution violated where a defendant who speaks only Bosnian and has an IQ of 57 receives no interpretation during the suppression hearing t…
20-8037 Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Texas Texas 2021-05-17 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactive-rule retroactivity Does Moore v. Texas establish a new retroactive rule of constitutional law?
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…
20-1197 Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (4) atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing Whether the availability of equitable tolling requires consideration of the totality of the circumstances
20-7205 Leonardo Franqui v. Florida Florida 2021-02-22 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-sentencing statutory-construction Is the Florida Supreme Court's understanding of the proper holistic evaluation to assess a capital defendant's intellectual disability consistent with…
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 …
20-6947 Alphonso Cave v. Florida Florida 2021-01-26 Denied IFP capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Must Florida apply Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014) retroactively and review a claim of intellectual-disability on the merits for cases on coll…
20-6879 John D. Freeman v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied IFP due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana postconviction-procedure retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule Whether Florida's postconviction procedures governing intellectual-disability claims fail to vindicate defendants' substantive Eighth-Amendment rights…
20-6887 Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida Florida 2021-01-14 Denied Amici (1)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall v. Florida
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…
20-6500 Alfred Bourgeois v. T. J. Watson, Warden, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-12-03 Denied Amici (1)IFP death-penalty diagnostic-standards due-process federal-death-penalty-act federal-statute habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review Does the Federal Death Penalty Act prohibit the execution of a federal prisoner who is intellectually disabled?
20-6518 Blaine Milam v. Texas Texas 2020-12-03 Denied IFP briseno-framework collateral-review court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-rule retroactivity substantive-law Did Moore v. Texas announce a new substantive rule that is retroactive to cases on collateral review?
20-6307 Gary Lawrence v. Florida Florida 2020-11-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent Whether Hall v. Florida applies retroactively on collateral review
20-5874 Jerry Lard v. Arkansas Arkansas 2020-10-01 Denied IFP categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of persons w…
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
20-240 Kentucky v. Larry Lamont White Kentucky 2020-08-28 Denied Amici (1) atkins-v-virginia atkins-waiver capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standing supreme-court-precedent Whether a capital defendant can waive a claim of intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia
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…
19-8357 Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana Montana 2020-04-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing Whether the Montana Supreme Court violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment by failing to address Louis's claims of …
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?
19-8011 James Anderson Dellinger v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-03-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction procedural-vehicle May Tennessee evade the constitutional mandate of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) via legislative inaction and judicial abdication?
19-1105 Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Jimmy Dean Harris Tenth Circuit 2020-03-10 Denied death-penalty death-penalty-appeal deference-to-state-courts deferential-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability standard-of-review Whether the Tenth Circuit contravened Supreme Court precedent in holding that the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals made an unreasonable determinatio…
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…
19-7862 Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied Relisted (4)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment confrontation-clause eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment intellectual-disability moral-culpability sentencing-hearing Whether the execution of a defendant with intellectual disability that arose after age 18 violates the Eighth and Fifth Amendments
19-7745 Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-24 Denied Relisted (3)IFP batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules Whether Hail v. Florida and Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review
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…
19-941 Billy Daniel Raulerson, Jr. v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Amici (2) aedpa atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment cooper-v-oklahoma due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent Whether Georgia's requirement that a capital defendant prove intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt violates the Eighth Amendment
19-7369 David Keen v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-01-22 Denied Relisted (4)IFP atkins-ruling atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction standing Does the Constitution permit Tennessee to evade the mandate of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) by legislative inaction and judicial abdication…
19-7222 Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law Whether the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose death sentence stands due to a federal court's misinterpretation of state law gove…
19-7153 Ronald Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2020-01-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment-representation capital-representation death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability plea-bargaining Whether counseling an intellectually disabled client to plead to life without parole to avoid the death penalty is ineffective assistance
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…
19-5916 Juan Matias Torres v. Ralph M. Diaz, Warden Ninth Circuit 2019-09-11 Denied IFP civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process free-speech habeas-corpus intellectual-disability patent standing takings Whether the 8th and 14th Amendments prohibit the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at the time of the offense
19-5672 Gary Ray Bowles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability procedural-obstacles Whether a capital defendant's claim that the Eighth Amendment forbids his execution as he is intellectually disabled becomes viable upon the issuance …
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…
19-5651 Gary Ray Bowles v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied IFP 18-usc-3599 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-enforcement clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus intellectual-disability right-to-counsel section-3599 Can state officials bar a death-sentenced individual's 18 U.S.C. § 3599 counsel from representing him in state clemency proceedings, and if not, is th…
19-5617 Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. Florida 2019-08-16 Denied Amici (2)IFP death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibition execution-risk florida-supreme-court intellectual-disability procedural-bar standing state-procedural-bar state-procedure unacceptable-risk Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled?
18A1231 Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institution Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-30 Presumed Complete eighth-amendment intellectual-disability legal-resources petition-for-certiorari prison-conditions time-extension Whether a prisoner with intellectual disabilities and limited access to legal resources can obtain an extension of time to file a petition for certior…
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 …
18-8653 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…
18-8583 Gilbert Postelle v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden Tenth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied IFP capital-punishment eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment Whether the failure to investigate and present mitigating evidence of intellectual disability based on the Flynn Effect violates the Sixth, Eighth, an…
18-8527 Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review Whether the courts applied the correct standard of review in denying petitioner's application for certificate of appealability
18-8340 Victor Roblero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied IFP constitutes a violation of the Sixth Amendment ri specifically the failure to investigate and prese appeal capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to investigate and present evidence of the…
18-8253 Jamie Kenmont Kerien Brown v. Georgia Georgia 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus intellectual-disability mental-health post-conviction-relief Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th…
18-1077 Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied atkins-v-virginia collateral-review constitutional-protection death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent Does Hall v. Florida apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
18-8027 Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-02-19 Denied IFP case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari Does Moore v. Texas apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
18-7809 James Were v. Ohio Ohio 2019-02-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias Whether the Supreme Court of Ohio violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by refusing to reopen the petitioner's direct appeal to consider evide…
18-7547 Michael Joseph Mulder v. Nevada Nevada 2019-01-24 Denied IFP competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty dementia eighth-amendment intellectual-disability memory-loss Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically excludes from the death penalty an individual who, because of a stroke that caused dementia, is functionall…
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 …
18-7216 Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th…
18-7034 Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities from receiving mandatory-life-imprisonment-without-parole s…
18-6513 Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2018-10-31 Denied IFP appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated when trial counsel failed to investigate and present evidence of the…
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.…
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 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 ste…
18-6252 Hersie Wesson v. Ohio Ohio 2018-10-09 Denied IFP capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-right death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-due-process state-courts threshold-showing When a capital defendant can make a substantial threshold showing of intellectual disability, are the state courts constitutionally required to provid…
18-5494 Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding in Buck v. Davis
18-5218 Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana Louisiana 2018-07-12 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment Whether the Louisiana state courts improperly considered Petitioner's criminal behavior in determining that he is not intellectually disabled, in viol…
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…
18-5018 Kenneth Darcell Quince v. Florida Florida 2018-06-28 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnostic-criteria eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas Whether Florida violated Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by disregarding medical evidenc…
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…
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…
24A391 Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden Missouri Denied capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability procedural-default Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a capital defendant with credible claims of intellectual disability that were not fully adjudi…
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…
25A335 In Re Blaine Milam Denied actual-innocence death-penalty eighth-amendment forensic-evidence intellectual-disability junk-science Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of a potentially innocent defendant based on now-discredited forensic evidence and testimony
25A356 Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied atkins-v-virginia death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent Whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant when a state court disregards clearly established Supreme…
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…