Supreme Court· 6/18/2015

Brumfield v. Cain

Citations

576 U.S. 305
135 S. Ct. 2269
192 L. Ed. 2d 356
2015 U.S. LEXIS 4058
83 U.S.L.W. 4490
25 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 355

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holding that the petitioner was entitled to a hearing on his intellectual-disability claim because, when accounting for the SEM, his IQ score of 75 was “squarely in the range of potential intellectual disability”
emphasizing that the determination of a capital defendant’s functional I.Q. must take into account the standard error of measurement applicable to the defendant’s raw I.Q. test scores
holding state court erred by failing to hold evidentiary hearing before adjudicating Atkins petition based, in part, on evidence of intellectual disability from the petitioner’s childhood
emphasizing that the determination of a capital defendant’s functional I.Q. must take into account the standard error of measurement applicable to the defendant’s raw I.Q. test scores
indicating that this prong requires the defendant to demonstrate that intellectual deficiencies manifested “before he [or she] reached adulthood”
noting that “federal habeas courts may ‘take new evidence in an evidentiary hearing’ when § 2254(d) does not bar relief”

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