| 25A821 |
Taylor Rene Parker v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-16 |
Application |
|
capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-capacity |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 25-5459 |
Robert Keith Woodall v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2025-08-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
confrontation-clause death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability |
The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid the execution of persons with intellectual disability. Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002). Perso… |
| 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. |
| 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… |
| 25A65 |
Byron Lewis Black v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
|
capital-punishment common-law-tradition competency-to-be-executed eighth-amendment evolving-standards-of-decency intellectual-disability |
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. |
| 25-5056 |
Edward Lee Busby, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment expert-testimony intellectual-disability |
Where the clinical criteria unequivocally establish that a death row inmate is intellectually disabled, and where all the experts -- including the exp… |
| 24A1075 |
Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Andrew Turner, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-removal americans-with-disabilities-act constitutional-rights due-process intellectual-disability medicaid-act |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7151 |
Zane Michael Floyd v. Jeremy Bean, Warden, et al. |
Nevada |
2025-05-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-ruling capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus |
Whether, given this medical consensus, the original meaning of the Eighth Amendment, and this Court's rulings in Atkins and Roper, a state may constit… |
| 24-6594 |
Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard death-penalty intellectual-disability procedural-hurdles retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether the categorical restriction against executing the intellectually disabled can be circumvented via procedural hurdles implemented after liti… |
| 24-872 |
John Q. Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections v. Joseph Clifton Smith |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-14 |
Granted |
Amici (11)Relisted (3) |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-procedure habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-testing preponderance-of-evidence |
1. Whether, under a proper application of Atkins , a State can require a claimant to prove an IQ of 70 or less by a preponderance of the evidence.
2.… |
| 24A675 |
Jermaine Alexander Foster v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-01-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability postconviction-relief supreme-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 24A637 |
Davone Unique Anderson v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-12-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-punishment criminal-culpability death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-review |
Whether a court must take into account a person's mental health crisis in assessing the voluntariness of custodial, non-Mirandized statements. |
| 24-6058 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-12-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
adaptive-behavior atkins-standard clinical-assessment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing |
Did the state court run afoul of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), when it ignored an applicant's full range of IQ scores in favor of a single … |
| 24A347 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-10-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
atkins-v-virginia capital-case death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5671 |
Garcia Glenn White v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-row Does the Eighth Amendment prohibition against crue eighth-amendment intellectual-disability time-limitation |
Christeson v. Roper, 574 U.S. 373 (2015), held that a conflict of interest could satisfy the "interests of justice" standard set forth in Martel v. Cl… |
| 24-5658 |
Garcia Glen White v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-amendments death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas texas-criminal-procedure |
1) Do Articles 11.073 and 11.071, Sec. 5 (a)(3) of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure create a due process problem because the statutes, as interpre… |
| 24-5420 |
Jerry E. Russell, Sr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
atkins-v-virginia criminal-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole sentencing |
Should the Eighth Amendment prohibition, against sentencing intellectually disabled individuals to death, announced in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 30… |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 23-7799 |
Esther Martin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency competency-to-stand-trial counsel-performance due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-proceedings sixth-amendment |
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the trial of incompetent persons, and the Sixth Amendment entitles criminal defen… |
| 23-7318 |
Michael P. Crenshaw v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process equal-protection executive-power individual-rights intellectual-disability judicial-review separation-of-powers state-sovereignty |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 23A856 |
Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Georgia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
|
adaptive-deficits death-penalty eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-testing woodard-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7042 |
Willie James Pye v. Shawn Emmons, Warden |
Georgia |
2024-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability |
Georgia requires persons with intellectual disability to prove their disability 'beyond a reasonable doubt' in order to vindicate their Eighth Amendme… |
| 23-6755 |
Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
aedpa aedpa-deference atkins-v-virginia death-penalty federal-habeas habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-deference state-court-review supreme-court-review |
Robert Ybarra, Jr., is on death row in Nevada. He is intellectually disabled.
During a state court hearing on his claim under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 … |
| 23-6655 |
Ralph Hall v. Anthony J. Annucci, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-action constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment federal-law habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review legal-procedure |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 23-6350 |
Brady Franklin v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause craig-precedent crawford-precedent crawford-v-washington intellectual-disability maryland-v-craig public-policy sixth-amendment witness-testimony |
After Crawford, is the balancing test created by Craig still good law, and if so, does extending its exemption for children from physical, face-to-fac… |
| 23-639 |
Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-13 |
Denied |
|
adaptive-functioning capital-punishment circuit-split eighth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing moore-v-texas |
This case implicates two persistent conflicts of authority with regard to how courts are to determine whether a person suffers from an intellectual di… |
| 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. |
| 23-6149 |
Gary Lynn Gatlin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4241-motion competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability mental-competency mental-illness standards-of-review |
I. SHOULD COURTS EVALUATE EVIDENCE SUPPORTING MOTIONS FOR COMPETENCY EVALUATIONS DIFFERENTLY WHEN THE CLAIMED BASIS FOR INCOMPETENCY IS INTELLECTUAL D… |
| 23A312 |
Thomas Dale Ferguson v. John Hamm, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability jury-recommendation strickland-v-washington |
Whether a jury's eleven-to-one recommendation of a life sentence weighs heavily in favor of a finding of prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466… |
| 23A276 |
Michael Duane Zack v. Ron Desantis, Governor of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
|
clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process executive-clemency fetal-alcohol-syndrome intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 23-110 |
Anisha Ituah, by Her Guardian Angela McKay v. Austin State Hospital, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act deliberate-indifference disparate-treatment due-process intellectual-disability intervention-rights involuntary-commitment notice-requirements prop-207 property-taking rehabilitation-act sexual-assault sexual-assault
23-1109" summary-judgment Whether the State's taking of common HOA lands vio |
May an intellectually disabled woman who complained of rape and sexual assault while involuntarily committed to a State Hospital, but was disbelieved … |
| 22-7897 |
In Re Frank Walls |
|
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 eighth-amendment federal-petition habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity substantive-rule teague-v-lane |
1. Was Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014) necessarily "made retroactive," for purposes of authorizing a successive federal habeas petition under 28 … |
| 22-7866 |
Frank A. Walls v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process eighth-amendment federal-authorization finality-of-mandate intellectual-disability mandate-reversal retroactivity supreme-court |
1. Must Hall v. Florida, 572 U.S. 701 (2014), be applied retroactively by state courts because it substantively expanded the class of individuals who … |
| 22-1114 |
James Harris, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability medically-accepted-standards moore-v-texas strickland-v-washington |
1. Whether the TCCA contravened the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and this Court's precedents, when it evaluated petitioner's intellectual disabil… |
| 22-7361 |
Demonte Tretion Kelly v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-waiver circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability miscarriage-of-justice sentencing-guidelines |
Whether appellate waivers in federal criminal cases contain and implied exception for miscarriage of justice. |
| 22-7334 |
In Re Quincetta Y. Cargill |
|
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance institutional-conditions intellectual-disability legal-appeal medical-treatment mental-health procedural-challenges rules-of-court standing |
1. Where petitioner has zero resources and zero assets to be liquidated showing zero probability of risk of flight, why not release her so she could f… |
| 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… |
| 22-6819 |
Donald Dillbeck v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2023-02-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
atkins-v-florida eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability jury-unanimity medical-community medical-consensus neurobehavioral-disorder prenatal-alcohol-exposure |
1. In light of the medical community's recent consensus that
Neurobehavioral Disorder Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure is not only
functional… |
| 22-6739 |
Harry Franklin Phillips v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment capital-punishment certificate-of-appealability circuit-split constitutional-law due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactivity |
1. Whether the denial of a Certificate of Appealability (COA) on the denial of a motion that seeks to amend a habeas petition pending on appeal – whic… |
| 22-6659 |
Armando Lopez-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standard concurrent-sentence gall-precedent gall-v-united-states individualized-assessment intellectual-disability judicial-explanation sentencing-courts sentencing-explanation sentencing-review |
Whether a sentencing court must provide a reasonable explanation, on the record, as to why it is not considering a sentencing factor advanced by a def… |
| 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? |
| 22-5906 |
William Lee Thompson v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-10-25 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-test iq-testing retroactivity standard-error teague-rule |
1. In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with int… |
| 22-5329 |
Chadrick Fulks v. T. J. Watson, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-08-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-U.S.C-2241 28-U.S.C-2255 collateral-review death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability section-2241 section-2255 |
Is an intellectually disabled and death-sentenced prisoner condemned to be executed in violation of the Eighth Amendment because he was found not to b… |
| 22-5093 |
Jerry Leon Haliburton v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof capital-punishment clear-and-convincing-evidence death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law |
In Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with intell… |
| 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… |
| 21-8067 |
Juan Gomez v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure culpability due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims. |
| 21-7929 |
Johnny Joe Avalos v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
capital-murder cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mitigating-circumstances sentencing texas-penal-code |
Whether an ALWOP sentence on an intellectually disabled adult convicted of capital murder as provided by Texas Penal Code Section 12.31(a)(2) - a stat… |
| 21-7292 |
James E. Walker v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure discretionary-review due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability post-conviction post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing |
Was it prosecutorial misconduct ct during the state's opening vacnta hnee hodn his trial. Page 15,16
Is i inel e ng afilue tga e te was impasing acco… |
| 21-1173 |
Joe Elton Nixon v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
and whether Florida's burden of proof for intelle atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-law eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability teague-rule teague-v-lane |
1. In Atkins v. Virginia , 536 U.S. 304 (2002), this Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments preclude the execution of defendants with in… |
| 21-7039 |
Andrew Sasser v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
28-usc-2244 adaptive-skills circuit-split death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability remand second-or-successive second-or-successive-application |
1. Whether amending a petition for writ of habeas corpus after a remand by
an appellate court makes it a second-or-successive application under
28 U.S… |
| 21-1021 |
Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction v. Alvin Bernal Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (4) |
adaptive-skills constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process evidence intellectual-disability judicial-interpretation |
Whether courts may consider adaptive strengths in deciding whether a defendant is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty. |
| 21-6711 |
Darius Smith v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
competency due-process effective-assistance guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disabilities intellectual-disability mental-competency mental-illness plea-proceeding sixth-amendment |
1. Whether Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to Due Process was violated where the record demonstrated that he had mental illness and intellectual di… |
| 21-782 |
Rodney Renia Young v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
burden-of-proof capital-punishment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability state-law |
Georgia requires persons with intellectual disability to prove their disability 'beyond a reasonable doubt' in order to vindicate their Eighth Amendme… |
| 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… |
| 21-5854 |
Ernest Johnson v. Paul Blair, Warden |
Missouri |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
adaptive-deficits atkins-v-virginia causal-connection eighth-amendment intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
The State of Missouri is set to execute an individual whom every evaluating expert following clinical diagnostic requirements has concluded meets the … |
| 21-5800 |
Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard Atkins-v-Virginia clinical-assessment clinical-standards conflict-between-lower-courts constitutional-interpretation criminal-sentencing death-penalty intellectual-disability national-concern sub-average-intellectual-functioning |
Did Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), require the use of clinical standards for the determination of sub-average intellectual functioning? |
| 21-466 |
Eric DeWayne Cathey v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
capital-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-criteria medical-standards precedent supreme-court-precedent |
Whether, in rejecting the detailed factfindings and legal conclusions of a state habeas trial court, disregarding medically accepted standards, and de… |
| 21-5498 |
Raymond Concepcion v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-court juvenile-justice mandatory-sentencing miller-v-alabama proportionality youth youth-culpability |
1. Whether the mandatory exclusion of murder defendants between the ages of 14 and 18 from Juvenile Court precludes individualized consideration of th… |
| 21-5491 |
Alton Alexander Nolen v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability mental-retardation |
Whether Oklahoma's procedure for litigating the issue of whether a capital defendant suffers from an intellectual disability that would disqualify him… |
| 21-5108 |
Victor Willis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability juvenile-sentencing life-without-parole |
Question not identified. |
| 20-8253 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 8th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process eighth-amendment federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability statutory-limitation suspension-clause |
1. Can 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b) be constitutionally interpreted to bar first-time federal habeas corpus merits review of an Eighth Amendment claim of intel… |
| 20-8174 |
Esad Lemo v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process intellectual-disability language-access language-interpretation mental-capacity police-interrogation right-to-interpretation sixth-amendment |
Is the Constitution violated where a defendant who speaks only Bosnian and has an IQ of 57 receives no interpretation during the suppression hearing t… |
| 20-8037 |
Quintin Phillippe Jones v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia constitutional-law death-penalty due-process expert-testimony fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability retroactive-rule retroactivity |
1. Does Moore v. Texas, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) establish a new retroactive rule of constitutional law that Petitioner is eligible for but could not pre… |
| 20-7805 |
Melvin Knight v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (13)IFP |
brumfield-v-cain clinical-standards death-penalty documentation-requirement intellectual-disability iq-score moore-v-texas supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a State may require a defendant to present an IQ score of 75 or below that was "documented prior to age 18" to have his intellectual disabilit… |
| 20-1197 |
Eugene Milton Clemons, II v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
atkins-v-virginia circuit-split civil-rights court-clerk-error due-process equitable-tolling filing-deadline habeas-corpus intellectual-disability post-conviction-review procedural-default standing |
1. Petitioner's request for state post-conviction review was deemed filed three days late because of a series of errors by the court clerk, who:
• inc… |
| 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… |
| 20-6972 |
Mark Allen Jenkins v. Jefferson S. Dunn, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
aedpa atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia circuit-court-methodology circuit-split comity federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability state-court-decision |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's failure to limit its review of a reasoned state-court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) to the specific reasons given … |
| 20-6947 |
Alphonso Cave v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment civil-rights collateral-review due-process intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana procedural-law retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent |
Must Florida apply Hall v. Florida, 134 S. Ct. 1986 (2014) retroactively and review a claim of intellectual disability on the merits for cases on coll… |
| 20-6887 |
Harry Franklin Phillips v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment collateral-review eighth-amendment ex-post-facto intellectual-disability montgomery-v-louisiana retroactivity supremacy-clause |
Whether a state court must give retroactive effect on collateral review to the rule announced in Hall because the Supremacy Clause, as held in Montgom… |
| 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… |
| 20-6769 |
Juan David Rodriguez v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability medical-consensus scientific-authority |
Whether the disregard of medical and scientific consensus and well-established clinical authority when evaluating a claim of intellectual disability c… |
| 20-6500 |
Alfred Bourgeois v. T. J. Watson, Warden, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)IFP |
death-penalty diagnostic-standards due-process federal-death-penalty-act federal-statute habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review |
Does the Federal Death Penalty Act, which provides that a "sentence of death shall not be carried out upon a person who is mentally retarded," prohibi… |
| 20-6518 |
Blaine Milam v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
briseno-framework collateral-review court-of-criminal-appeals death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactive-rule retroactivity substantive-law |
1. Did Moore v. Texas announce a new substantive rule that is retroactive to cases on collateral review and, if so, did the Texas Court of Criminal Ap… |
| 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… |
| 20-5874 |
Jerry Lard v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
categorical-prohibition death-penalty eighth-amendment execution intellectual-disability ripeness waiver |
1. Whether a death-sentenced inmate is permitted to waive a viable claim for an Eighth Amendment categorical probation against the execution of person… |
| 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 … |
| 20-240 |
Kentucky v. Larry Lamont White |
Kentucky |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
atkins-v-virginia atkins-waiver capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether a capital defendant can waive a claim of intellectual disability under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002), and its progeny. |
| 19-8598 |
Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. v. Keith Yordy, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
adaptive-functioning adaptive-skills atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-standards eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability iq-scores standard-error-of-measurement |
1. In determining intellectual disability, at the time of the pertinent state court decision in 2008, whether Atkins and the Eighth Amendment mandated… |
| 19-8357 |
Jeffery J. Lout v. Montana |
Montana |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-claims death-penalty due-process ex-post-facto intellectual-disability mental-illness procedural-challenges psychological-evaluation sentencing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-1191 |
Ohio v. Shawn Ford |
Ohio |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability standing state-standards supreme-court-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
What is the test for determining whether someone is "intellectually disabled" for purposes of the Eighth Amendment? |
| 19-8011 |
James Anderson Dellinger v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-03-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction procedural-vehicle |
Mr. Dellinger has a full-scale I.Q. of 69; he never could read, write, figure out which restroom to use, buy bread, or measure a board. His adaptive d… |
| 19-1105 |
Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Jimmy Dean Harris |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
|
death-penalty death-penalty-appeal deference-to-state-courts deferential-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability standard-of-review |
1. In holding that the OCCA made an "unreasonable determination of the facts," did the Tenth Circuit contravene this Court's repeated admonition that … |
| 19-1106 |
Tommy Sharp, Interim Warden v. Roderick L. Smith |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
adaptive-functioning atkins-v-virginia death-penalty-appeals habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas retroactivity teague-v-lane tenth-circuit |
1. Did the Tenth Circuit err in concluding that Moore I and Moore II were mere applications of Atkins that could be applied retroactively on collatera… |
| 19-7862 |
Wesley Paul Coonce, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment confrontation-clause eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment intellectual-disability moral-culpability sentencing-hearing |
1. Because the age at which a capital defendant became intellectually disabled does not bear on his moral culpability, did the Court of Appeals err in… |
| 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… |
| 19-7699 |
Anthony Carr v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
adaptive-functioning atkins atkins-standard criminal-sentencing diagnostic-criteria due-process intellectual-disability medical-expert-criteria medical-experts supreme-court supreme-court-interpretation |
Did the Mississippi Supreme Court establish an erroneous legal standard when medical experts"? |
| 19-941 |
Billy Daniel Raulerson, Jr. v. Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
aedpa atkins-v-virginia burden-of-proof capital-punishment cooper-v-oklahoma due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent |
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 req… |
| 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… |
| 19-7369 |
David Keen v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (4)IFP |
atkins-ruling atkins-v-virginia constitutional-mandate cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability judicial-abdication legislative-inaction standing |
Does the Constitution permit Tennessee to evade the mandate of Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304 (2002) by legislative inaction and judicial abdication… |
| 19-7222 |
Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law |
Timothy Richardson's death penalty case raises a significant issue of national importance: whether our criminal justice system tolerates the execution… |
| 19-7153 |
Ronald Johnson v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
atkins-v-virginia capital-punishment-representation capital-representation death-penalty due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability plea-bargaining |
1) Whether counseling an intellectually disabled client to plead to life without parole to avoid the death penalty is ineffective assistance, when ple… |
| 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… |
| 19-5916 |
Juan Matias Torres v. Ralph M. Diaz, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process free-speech habeas-corpus intellectual-disability patent standing takings |
1. IS PETITIONER ENTITLED TO A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY ON ALL HIS AMENDED CLAIMS AND ORIGINAL CLAIMS?
a. Did The Court Violate Defendant's 5th, … |
| 19-5672 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2244 capital-punishment cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability procedural-obstacles |
Gary Ray Bowles is an intellectually disabled man on Florida's death row. Despite this Court's holding in Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S. 304, 321 (2002)… |
| 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… |
| 19-5651 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-3599 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-enforcement clemency clemency-proceedings death-penalty due-process federal-counsel federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus intellectual-disability right-to-counsel section-3599 |
Can state officials bar a death-sentenced individual's 18 U.S.C. § 3599 counsel from representing him in state clemency proceedings, and if not, is th… |
| 19-5617 |
Gary Ray Bowles v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-prohibition execution-risk florida-supreme-court intellectual-disability procedural-bar standing state-procedural-bar state-procedure unacceptable-risk |
1. Can a state procedural bar override the Eighth Amendment prohibition against executing the intellectually disabled?
2. Does the Rodriguez procedur… |
| 18A1231 |
Antonio Leonard Brown v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institution Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
eighth-amendment intellectual-disability legal-resources petition-for-certiorari prison-conditions time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 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 … |
| 18-8653 |
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… |
| 18-8583 |
Gilbert Postelle v. Mike Carpenter, Interim Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-punishment eighth-amendment flynn-effect fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mitigating-evidence sixth-amendment |
1. Whether it violates the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments for a state to defeat a post-conviction claim of ineffective assistance of counsel… |
| 18-8527 |
Rene Rivera v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial foreign-born-national intellectual-disability language-barrier miller-el-v-cockrell post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-relief slack-v-mcdaniel standard-of-review |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida apply an inc… |
| 18-8340 |
Victor Roblero v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutes a violation of the Sixth Amendment ri specifically the failure to investigate and prese appeal capital-punishment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sixth-amendment |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8253 |
Jamie Kenmont Kerien Brown v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus intellectual-disability mental-health post-conviction-relief |
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| 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 … |
| 18-8027 |
Michael Eugene Sample v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
case-remand collateral-review criminal-justice death-penalty death-penalty-sentencing due-process habeas-corpus intellectual-disability judicial-review montgomery-v-louisiana moore-v-texas retroactive-application retroactivity supreme-court-precedent welch-v-united-states writ-of-certiorari |
1. Does Moore v. Texas, 581 U.S. ___, 137 S.Ct. 1039 (2017) apply retroactively to cases on collateral review?
2. Should this Court grant certiorari,… |
| 18-7809 |
James Were v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis competency-hearing death-penalty death-penalty-eligibility eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment intellectual-disability iq-scores racial-bias |
1. Did the Supreme Court of Ohio violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it refused to reopen Petitioner's direct appeal to consider evidenc… |
| 18-7547 |
Michael Joseph Mulder v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
competency cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty dementia eighth-amendment intellectual-disability memory-loss |
Whether the Eighth Amendment categorically excludes from the death penalty an individual who, because of a stroke that caused dementia, is functionall… |
| 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… |
| 18-7216 |
Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits |
Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied this court's guidance from Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 326 (2003) and Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 7… |
| 18-7034 |
Shawn Sadik v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment criminal-sentencing cruel-and-unusual-punishment culpability death-penalty developmental-disability eighth-amendment intellectual-disability life-without-parole mandatory-life-imprisonment mandatory-sentencing parole |
Does the Eighth Amendment bar individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities from mandatory life without parole sentences? |
| 18-6513 |
Byron Christopher Chinchilla v. Greg Lewis, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment attempted-murder criminal-gang due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability mental-health sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of habeas relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims. |
| 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. … |
| 18-6252 |
Hersie Wesson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-defendant capital-punishment constitutional-right death-penalty due-process intellectual-disability opportunity-to-be-heard procedural-due-process state-courts threshold-showing |
Question #1: When a capital defendant can make a substantial threshold showing of intellectual disability, are the state courts constitutionally requi… |
| 18-443 |
Bobby James Moore v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (5) |
capital-punishment clinical-criteria clinical-standards criminal-procedure eighth-amendment intellectual-disability lay-stereotypes medical-standards moore-v-texas |
1. Whether the Eighth Amendment and this Court's decision in Moore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017) prohibit relying on non-clinical criteria and lay … |
| 18-5494 |
Blaine Keith Milam v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights death-penalty due-process fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel intellectual-disability judicial-review mitigating-evidence procedural-default right-to-counsel |
Did the Fifth Circuit err in not granting a certificate of appealability on the claims presented in violation of the holding of Buck v. Davis, 137 S. … |
| 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… |
| 18-56 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Danny Hill |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-10 |
GVR |
Relisted (9) |
aedpa antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act atkins-standard atkins-v-virginia clinical-judgment clinical-judgments death-penalty eighth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability moore-v-texas |
Did the Sixth Circuit properly use the Moore decision from 2017 to find that an Ohio court unreasonably applied Atkins in 2008, even though the Ohio c… |
| 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… |
| 24A302 |
Garcia Glen White v. Texas |
Texas |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-claim death-penalty dna-evidence fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 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. |
| 25A335 |
In Re Blaine Milam |
|
|
Denied |
|
actual-innocence death-penalty eighth-amendment forensic-evidence intellectual-disability junk-science |
Question not identified. |
| 25A356 |
Victor Tony Jones v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
|
atkins-v-virginia death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 25A693 |
Frank A. Walls v. Florida, et al. |
Florida |
|
Denied |
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atkins-claim constitutional-interpretation death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment intellectual-disability |
Question not identified. |
| 24A391 |
Christopher Collings v. David Vandergriff, Warden |
Missouri |
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Denied |
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capital-punishment eighth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance intellectual-disability procedural-default |
Question not identified. |