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Supreme Court Holds Texas May Not Use Outdated Standards to Determine Intellectual Disability in Death Penalty Cases

Loaded on Dec. 19, 2017 by Matthew Clarke published in Criminal Legal News January, 2018, page 12
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners, Americans with Disabilities Act, Death Penalty. Location: Texas.

by Matt Clarke

In a 5-3 opinion handed down on March 28, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (“CCA”) violated the Eighth Amendment and Supreme Court precedent when it relied upon its own previous opinion and superseded medical standards to conclude that a ...

 

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