iq-testing
8 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.… |
| 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 … |
| 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 … | |
| 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. | |
| 23-639 | 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… |
| 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… |