No. 20-5563

Richard Bays v. Tim Shoop, Warden

Lower Court: Sixth Circuit
Docketed: 2020-09-02
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 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
Latest Conference: 2020-11-20
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Is it at least debatable whether Petitioner was improperly denied the right to amend his federal habeas corpus petition to include a claim that he is intellectually disabled, where, exactly as in Moore v. Texas, 586 U.S. _ (2019) (Moore I), he has IQ test scores below 75, proof of adaptive deficits, and proof of onset of his disability before age eighteen?

2. Is it at least debatable whether a death-sentenced petitioner, on the basis of purported "delay," may be denied leave to amend his federal habeas petition with an intellectual-disability claim, when he moved to amend his petition before this Court even issued Moore II and the retroactive decisions in Moore v. Texas, 581 U.S. (2017) (Moore J), and Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014)?

3. Is it at least debatable whether a petitioner who is actually innocent of the death penalty under Sawyer v. Whitley, 505 U.S. 333 (1992), is entitled to an equitable exemption from the statute of limitations under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA)?

4. Is it at least debatable whether Petitioner, who was sentenced to death before Atkins, has a right to the effective assistance of counsel in litigating a post-conviction claim of intellectual disability—as has been held by the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Hooks v. Workman, 689 F.3d 1148, 1183 (10th Cir. 2012), and a dissenting judge in Petitioner's own case—particularly when defendants in his jurisdiction who have been sentenced to death after Atkins do have a right to raise their counsel's ineffective assistance in litigating an intellectual-disability claim?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Petitioner was improperly denied the right to amend his federal habeas corpus petition to include a claim that he is intellectually disabled

Docket Entries

2020-11-23
Petition DENIED.
2020-11-05
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/20/2020.
2020-11-03
Reply of petitioner Richard Bays filed. Distributed
2020-10-20
Brief of respondent Shoop, Warden in opposition filed.
2020-09-28
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including November 2, 2020.
2020-09-25
Motion to extend the time to file a response from October 2, 2020 to November 2, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-08-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 2, 2020)

Attorneys

Richard Bays
Erin Gallagher BarnhartFederal Public Defender for the Southern District of Ohio, Capital Habeas Unit, Petitioner
Shoop, Warden
Benjamin Michael FlowersOhio Attorney General Dave Yost, Respondent