No. 20-6769

Juan David Rodriguez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2021-01-05
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus scientific-authority
Latest Conference: 2021-03-05
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether the disregard of medical and scientific consensus and well-established clinical authority when evaluating a claim of intellectual disability constitutes the impermissible denial of a capital defendant's substantive right to a reliable and accurate Atkins v. Virginia 536 U.S. 304 (2002), determination under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the disregard of medical and scientific consensus and well-established clinical authority when evaluating a claim of intellectual disability constitutes the impermissible denial of a capital defendant's substantive right to a reliable and accurate Atkins v. Virginia 536 U.S. 304 (2002), determination under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments

Docket Entries

2021-03-08
Petition DENIED.
2021-02-18
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/5/2021.
2021-02-04
Brief of respondent Florida, Department of Corrections in opposition filed.
2020-12-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 4, 2021)

Attorneys

Florida, Department of Corrections
Carolyn M. SnurkowskiOffice of the Attorney General, Respondent
Juan David Rodriguez
Scott Michael GavinCaptial Collateral Regional Counsel-South, Petitioner