No. 19-941

Billy Daniel Raulerson, Jr. v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2020-01-28
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Amici (2)
Tags: aedpa atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment cooper-v-oklahoma due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent
Latest Conference: 2020-03-27
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether this Court's unanimous holding in Cooper v. Oklahoma, 517 U.S. 348 (1996), clearly established that Georgia could not impose the burden of requiring proof of intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt, particularly when state supreme courts in Indiana, Tennessee, and other states recognized that Cooper would not allow their states to require a defendant to prove intellectual disability even by a lower standard of clear and convincing evidence.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Georgia's requirement that a capital defendant prove intellectual disability beyond a reasonable doubt violates the Eighth Amendment

Docket Entries

2020-03-30
Petition DENIED.
2020-03-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/27/2020.
2020-03-10
Reply of petitioner Billy Daniel Raulerson, Jr. filed.
2020-02-27
Brief amici curiae of Disability Rights Legal Center, National Disability Rights Network, Center For Public Representation, Georgia Advocacy Office, Stephen N. Xenakis, James R. Merikangas, And Steven Eidelman filed.
2020-02-27
Brief amici curiae of Southern Center for Human Rights filed.
2020-02-26
Brief of respondent Warden in opposition filed.
2020-01-24
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due February 27, 2020)
2019-11-14
Application (19A512) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file until January 24, 2020.
2019-11-07
Application (19A512) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from November 25, 2019 to January 24, 2020, submitted to Justice Thomas.

Attorneys

Billy Daniel Raulerson, Jr.
David W. DeBruinJenner and Block LLP, Petitioner
Disability Rights Legal Center, National Disability Rights Network, Center For Public Representation, Georgia Advocacy Office, Stephen N. Xenakis, James R. Merikangas, And Steven Eidelman
Donald B. Verrilli Jr.Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Amicus
Southern Center for Human Rights
Michael Boland AdmirandSouthern Center for Human Rights, Amicus
Warden
Sabrina D. GrahamSenior Assistant Attorney General, Respondent