Petition of the day
By John Ehrett
on Nov 10, 2015
The petition of the day is:
15-65
Issue: Whether Texas’s standard for determining if a capital defendant meets the second prong of the definition of intellectual disability (“deficits in adaptive functioning”) violates the Eighth Amendment in light of Atkins v. Virginia and Hall v. Florida.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Recommended Citation:
John Ehrett,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Nov. 10, 2015, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2015/11/petition-of-the-day-875/