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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5749 Victor Saldano v. Texas Texas 2025-09-29 Pending IFP atkins-claim due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability procedural-bar state-court-review 1. Does the TCCA's creation of a novel and unforeseeable procedural bar in its interpretation of Article 11.071 Section 5 preclude review of Mr. Salda…
25-5214 Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-07-28 Denied IFP atkins-claim death-penalty federal-precedent intellectual-disability liberty-interest state-procedure Next Term, this Court will resolve a significant dispute among the federal Circuit Courts of Appeal : "Whether and how courts may consider the cumulat…
25A118 Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee Tennessee 2025-07-28 Denied atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores medical-standards Question not identified.
25A53 Victor Saldano v. Texas Texas 2025-07-14 Presumed Complete atkins-claim competency-to-execute death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability Question not identified.
24-6798 Karl Douglas Roberts v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Amici (2)IFP aedpa-standard atkins-claim death-penalty federal-claim habeas-corpus state-court-adjudication Whether a claim has been adjudicated on the merits by a state court under § 2254(d), where the defendant did not present a federal claim for relief an…
24A124 Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas Texas 2024-08-04 Denied atkins-claim death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments by dismissing Arthur Lee Burton's subsequent writ of habeas …
24-5221 Arthur Lee Burton v. Texas Texas 2024-08-04 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty diagnostic-criteria hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas-i moore-v-texas-ii procedural-review supreme-court-precedent 1. Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ("TCCA")—in refusing to authorize plenary review of Mr. Burton's unrebutted prima facie case that his i…
23-7085 Isaiah Glenndell Tryon v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-27 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment flynn-effect habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction-relief procedural-default 1. Where a state habeas court, in a non-alternative holding, considers the merits of a defaulted counsel claim to decide whether statutorily required …
23A508 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete atkins-claim death-penalty exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60b Question not identified.
22-6964 Arthur Brown, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2023-03-08 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-precedent moore-v-texas procedural-bar texas-criminal-code-article-11.071-section-5(a)(1) 1. Is Mr. Brown entitled to a merits review of his Atkins claim under federal law, Moore I and Moore II, and was the procedural bar asserted by the Te…
22-6570 Richard Galvan Montiel v. Kevin Chappell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-retardation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Where a capitally sentenced habeas corpus petitioner relies on uncontradicted Strickland mitigating evidence and United States District Court findings…
21-6428 Danny Lee Hill v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (18)IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnoses federal-review habeas-corpus historical-evidence intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice present-functioning state-court-review I. Whether it constitutes an unreasonable determination of the facts under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2) when a state court decision rejecting an Atkins v. V…
20-5563 Richard Bays v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-02 Denied IFP 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 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 …
19-5988 Tyrone Chalmers v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-09-18 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons Where a petitioner establishes uncontested proof that despite effort he repeated the first grade and was enrolled in special education in the second g…
19-5682 In Re Gary Ray Bowles 2019-08-22 Denied IFP 28-usc-2244 atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment death-penalty habeas-corpus intellectual-disability successive-habeas-petition successive-petition writ-of-certiorari Petitioner Gary Ray Bowles is an intellectually disabled man who is scheduled to be executed by the State of Florida on August 22, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. …
19-5653 Edward Lee Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-21 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 adjudication-on-the-merits atkins-claim due-process due-process-clause eighth-amendment federal-constitutional-claim federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standard-of-review state-court state-court-review 1. When a state habeas court denies a petitioner relief on a federal constitutional claim his claim by imposing a higher burden than is required by fe…
18-9262 David Wood v. Texas Texas 2019-05-14 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas Do the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments tolerate the execution of a person whose claim of intellectual disability has been expressly decided under an …
18-7332 James Dellinger v. Tennessee Tennessee 2019-01-09 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-vehicle roper-v-simmons Where a petitioner establishes uncontested proof that despite effort he never progressed beyond the first grade level and dropped out of third grade a…
18-553 Juliet Yackel v. South Dakota, et al. South Dakota 2018-10-29 Denied atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia conflict-of-interest counsel-representation death-penalty death-penalty-appeal eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability moore-v-texas 1. Was Rodney Berget arbitrarily deprived of his entitlement to conflict free counsel in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment when his counsel determ…
18-6315 David Ivy v. Tennessee Tennessee 2018-10-16 Denied IFP atkins-claim atkins-v-virginia constitutional-prohibition cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas procedural-mechanism roper-v-simmons state-procedure Where this Court has declared, "States may not execute anyone in 'the entire category of [intellectually disabled] offenders." Moore v. Texas, 137 S. …
24A308 Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit Denied atkins-claim eighth-amendment equitable-tolling ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability successive-habeas Question not identified.
25A280 David Joseph Pittman v. Florida Florida Denied atkins-claim death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-bar Question not identified.
24A302 Garcia Glen White v. Texas Texas Denied atkins-claim death-penalty dna-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability Question not identified.
25A693 Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. Florida Denied atkins-claim constitutional-interpretation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability Question not identified.