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· 6/9/2017

Matter of Akayla M. (Marie M.)

Citations

  • 2017 NY Slip Op 4639
  • 151 A.D.3d 1684
  • 56 N.Y.S.3d 731

How courts have described this case

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  • explaining that, although the Alabama courts had improperly reasoned that the petitioner’s adaptive strengths outweighed his deficits, this approach was acceptable until Moore
  • “The Supreme Court’s decision in Atkins did not define what it means to be intellectually disabled, instead leaving that task to the states.”

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Judges: Smith, Peradotto, Dejoseph, Nemoyer, Curran

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