To: Julius Wong who wrote (208899 ) 11/12/2024 2:47:08 AM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to something pointed out to me this day over phone call whilst I was doing daily walkworldpopulationreview.com , and that seems less than fairouchy news.bloomberglaw.com Supreme Court Orders New Look at IQ Scores in Death Resentencing Atkins v. Virginia deemed it unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment to execute anyone with a mental disability. Alabama said it, and many other states, understood the significantly sub-average intellectual functioning Atkins required to be an IQ of 70. Hall v. Florida and Moore v. Texas — that set the standards for determining intellectual disability in the wake of Atkins . Hall, the court adopted a three-pronged definition of intellectual disability from the medical community that included significantly sub-average intellectual functioning, deficits in adaptive functioning, and the onset of deficits during the developmental period. In Moore , the court said intellectual functioning assessments have to account for the IQ’s test standard error of measurement and move one to the second prong when the lower end of an offender’s score range falls at or below 70.Hamm v. Smith , U.S., No. 23-167.
