Hall v. Thaler
Petition for certiorari denied on October 18, 2010
Issue: (1) Whether an IQ below seventy and substantial adaptive limitations that satisfy the clinical definition of mental retardation fail to shield a defendant from execution when those limitations may have been caused, even in part, by “environmental”? factors; and (2) whether Texas’s approach to assessing adaptive limitations violates established precedent.
Briefs and Documents
Certiorari-stage documents
- Opinion below (5th Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Amicus brief of Texas State Senator Rodney Ellis et al.
- Amicus brief of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and The Arc of the United States
- Petitioner's reply
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