Kentucky Supreme Court· 4/22/2005

Bowling v. Commonwealth

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163 S.W.3d 361
2005 WL 628968

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noting that because the Kentucky statute unambiguously sets IQ score of 70 as cutoff, courts cannot consider the Flynn Effect or standard error of measurement
informing that the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (3rd. ed.) defines significantly subaverage intellectual functioning as ... two or more standard deviations below the mean
noting that because mental health retardation is a permanent, static condition, it would be rare for the condition to recede between the time of offense and execution
informing that the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (3rd. ed.) defines significantly subaverage intellectual functioning as . . . two or more standard deviations below the mean
recognizing Supreme Court “left it to the states to formulate their own definitions, so long as they ‘generally conform[ed] to the clinical definitions’ established by the AAMR and the American Psychiatric Association as approved in Atkins”
“Bowling IV”},3 wherein the Commonwealth advocated and this Court accepted that two Otis IQ scores of 84 and 79 (the only two test scores taken while the defendant was a juvenile

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Judges: Lambert, Johnstone, Scott, Wintersheimer, Keller, Graves

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