iq-test
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… | |
| 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… |
| 22-5906 | 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… |