medical-consensus
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 23-5653 | Michael Duane Zack, III v. Florida | Florida | 2023-09-26 | Denied | IFP | atkins-exemption atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment fetal-alcohol-syndrome fourteenth-amendment intellectual-developmental-disorder medical-consensus witherspoon-v-illinois | Does the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment bar the execution of a defendant with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome who was not sentenced to death by a unanimous jur… |
| 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… |
| 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… |