Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana
DueProcess Punishment HabeasCorpus JusticiabilityDoctri
I. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct 1039 (2017), Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), and Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) where the Louisiana state courts relied on evidence of Petitioner's criminal behavior, contrary to the standards of the medical co=unity, in determining that Petitioner Allen Robertson is not intellectually disabled?
II. Whether it violates the Sixth Amendment and this Court's decision in Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado, 137 S. Ct. 855 (2017), where a member of the jury that convicted Petitioner and sentenced him to death stated that "[m]urders and stuff, it's all done by them niggers," and where the Louisiana state courts denied Petitioner's racial bias claim without co=ent?
Whether the Louisiana state courts improperly considered Petitioner's criminal behavior in determining that he is not intellectually disabled, in violation of the Eighth Amendment and SCOTUS precedents