| 25-6357 |
Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-rule constitutional-protection death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability procedural-bar |
1. Has Florida's partial retroactive treatment of Hall v. Florida denied intellectually disabled people the protections of Atkins and should procedura… |
| 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… |
| 23-6383 |
Guillermo Octavio Arbelaez v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2023-12-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards retroactivity teague-rule teague-v-lane |
In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of individuals with intel… |
| 23-167 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-21 |
GVR |
Amici (1)Relisted (30) |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing standard-error-of-measurement |
According to Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2003), the Eighth Amendment exempts intellectually disabled offenders from capital punishment. The Cour… |
| 22-6191 |
John L. Lotter v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review constitutional-law eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity substantive-rules |
Did Hall and Moore I announce new substantive rules of federal constitutional law that apply retroactively to cases on collateral review? |
| 21-8144 |
Tavares J. Wright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment due-process eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability iq-testing moore-v-texas |
Whether failing to apply the Flynn effect to a capital defendant's intelligence quotient scores in cases where the scores were formulated from tests t… |
| 20-7205 |
Leonardo Franqui v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-sentencing statutory-construction |
1. Is the Florida Supreme Court's understanding of the proper holistic evaluation to be conducted in order to assess a capital defendant's intellectua… |
| 20-6879 |
John D. Freeman v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana postconviction-procedure retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule |
1. Whether Florida's postconviction procedures governing intellectual disability claims fail to vindicate defendants' substantive Eighth Amendment rig… |
| 20-6307 |
Gary Lawrence v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty hall-v-florida intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rule supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's decision in Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), merely clarified Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), or announced a new… |
| 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 … |
| 19-7745 |
Willie B. Smith, III v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
batson-challenge collateral-review death-penalty death-penalty-law hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas peremptory-strikes prosecutor-conduct prosecutorial-discretion retroactive-application retroactivity substantive-rules |
1. Whether Hall v. Florida , 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014), and Moore v. Texas , 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017), announced new substantive rules that apply retroacti… |
| 19-7456 |
Taurus Carroll v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia brumfield-v-cain capital-punishment current-medical-standards eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas supreme-court-review |
Does the Alabama Supreme Court's continued reliance upon evidence that fails to adhere to current medical standards in rejecting Mr. Carroll's claim o… |
| 18-8653 |
Tavares J. Wright v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Does the Florida Supreme Court's adaptive functioning analysis of intellectually disabled individuals, which requires post-conviction defendants to pr… |
| 18-1077 |
Akil Jahi, aka Preston Carter v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
|
atkins-v-virginia collateral-review constitutional-protection death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility hall-v-florida intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
1. Does Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014) apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
2. Does Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) apply … |
| 18-5218 |
Allen Robertson, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2018-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-behavior death-penalty eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability jury-misconduct moore-v-texas racial-bias sixth-amendment |
I. Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decisions in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct 1039 (2017), Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (201… |
| 18-5018 |
Kenneth Darcell Quince v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty diagnostic-criteria eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment hall-v-florida intellectual-disability medical-standards moore-v-texas |
Did Florida violate Atkins v. Virginia, Hall v. Florida, Moore v. Texas, and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution wh… |