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· 12/17/2015

Sonny Boy Oats, Jr. v. State of Florida

Citations

  • 181 So. 3d 457
  • 40 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 705
  • 2015 Fla. LEXIS 2811
  • 2015 WL 9169766

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the failure on one prong of the ID test is not necessarily dispositive
  • holding that the failure on one prong of the ID test is not necessarily dispositive
  • holding that section 921.137(1), Florida Statutes, requires only that intellectual disability be demonstrated to have manifested prior to age eighteen, not that it be diagnosed
  • “[A]s the Supreme Court has now recognized, because these factors are interdependent, if one of the prongs is relatively less strong, a finding of intellectual disability may still be warranted based on the strength of other prongs.” (citing Hall, 134 S. Ct. at 2001)

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Judges: Labarga, Pariente, Lewis, Quince, Perry, Canady, Polston

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