Harris v. Texas

(1) Whether the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals contravened the Eighth and 14th Amendments, and this court"s precedents, when it evaluated petitioner"s intellectual-disability claim based on its own standard instead of medically accepted criteria; and (2) whether petitioner received ineffective assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment when his counsel abandoned an investigation into his intellectual disability without having any medical professional evaluate the defendant for that condition.