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Hall v. Thaler

Certiorari Denied

Petition for certiorari denied on October 18, 2010.

Docket No.10-37
Op. Below5th Circuit

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.

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