No. 19-7699
IFP
Tags: adaptive-functioning atkins atkins-standard criminal-sentencing diagnostic-criteria due-process intellectual-disability medical-expert-criteria medical-experts supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation
Key Terms:
HabeasCorpus Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
HabeasCorpus Punishment JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference:
2020-06-18
Question Presented (from Petition)
Did the Mississippi Supreme Court establish an erroneous legal standard when medical experts"?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Did the Mississippi Supreme Court establish an erroneous legal standard when it held that proof of intellectual disability in Atkins cases requires a showing of 'adaptive functioning deficits ... so severe that [the petitioner] should be ruled intellectually disabled,' when the term 'so severe' does not appear in the diagnostic criteria, and in light of this Court's holding that Atkins decisions must be 'informed by the work of medical experts'?
Docket Entries
2020-06-22
Petition DENIED.
2020-06-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/18/2020.
2020-06-03
Reply of petitioner Anthony Carr filed. (Distributed)
2020-05-20
Brief of respondent State of Mississippi in opposition filed.
2020-04-17
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including May 20, 2020.
2020-04-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 20, 2020 to May 20, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-03-19
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 20, 2020.
2020-03-18
Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 20, 2020 to April 20, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2019-12-11
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 20, 2020)
Attorneys
Anthony Carr
State of Mississippi
LaDonna Curtis Holland — Mississippi Attorney General's Office, Respondent
Jason Lewis Davis — Mississippi Attorney General, Respondent