Ortiz v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding a district court’s mistaken belief that a defendant obtained a driver’s license was not harmless even though “the driver’s license was but one of many facts upon which the district court relied”
• emphasizing defendant’s refusal to cooperate in investigative efforts as relevant to determining counsel’s reasonableness
• rejecting an argument that “established science ... dictates a mental retardation diagnosis” because it “incorrectly assumes the Atkins decision delegates to the scientific community the finding of whether an individual is mentally retarded”
• “[P]sychology informs, but does not determinately decide, whether an inmate is exempt from execution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).