Allen v. Buss

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• observing that “the [state] trial court did not determine whether [the petitioner] is mentally retarded under Indiana’s test for mental retardation” and remanding the case to the federal district court for an evidentiary hearing
• “The rule of Eddings is that a sentencing court may not exclude relevant mitigating evidence. But of course, a court may choose to give mitigating evidence little or no weight.” (citation omitted)
• “The rule of Eddings is that a sentencing court may not exclude relevant mitigating evidence. [Citation omitted.] But of course, a court may choose to give mitigating evidence little or no weight.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).