State v. Ford (Slip Opinion)

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 4539

Syllabus

Criminal Law—Aggravated murder—Conviction affirmed—Death sentence vacated and cause remanded to trial court to properly determine whether defendant is intellectually disabled after considering the following three core elements: (1) intellectual-functioning deficits (indicated by an IQ score approximately two standard deviations below the mean—i.e., a score of roughly 70 or lower when adjusted for the standard error of measurement), (2) significant adaptive deficits in any of the three adaptive-skill sets (conceptual, social, and practical), and (3) the onset of these deficits while the defendant was a minor.