SCOTUS blog summary of Moore v Texas Atkins decision

SCOTUSblogOpinion analysis: A victory for intellectually disabled inmates in TexasArgument transcriptArgument analysis: Justices hesitant about extending ERISA to church-affiliated pension plansArgument preview: Court to weigh suppression of evidence in notorious D.C. murderLive blog of opinions (Update: Completed)Tuesday round-upPetition of the dayArgument transcriptsOpinion analysis: A victory for intellectually disabled inmates in TexasPosted: 28 Mar 2017 10:51 AM PDTA Texas death-row inmate will get a shot at a new sentence after the Supreme Court ruled today that a state court applied the wrong standards to conclude that he was not intellectually disabled and therefore could be executed. Bobby James Moore was convicted and sentenced to death for shooting a supermarket employee during a 1980 robbery. But Moore argued that he was exempt from execution because he was intellectually disabled – for example, he failed first grade twice, still did not grasp basic principles like telling time at the age of 13, and had suffered a " debilitating " injury when he was hit in the head with a chain and a brick during the battle over integrating public schools.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals – the state ' s court of last resort for criminal cases – rejected Moore ' s challenge to his death sentence. It relied on its 2004 decision in another case,Ex parte Briseno, involving an inmate ' s intellectual disability.Briseno used a set of 1992 standards for evaluating int...

Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - March 28, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs