United States Supreme Court

In a petition for habeas corpus relief from death sentence for fatally shooting a store clerk during a botched robbery that occurred when petitioner was 20 years old, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) decision overturning the habeas court's grant of petition -- which found that petitioner qualified as intellectually disabled and that his death sentence therefore violated the Eighth Amendment's proscription of cruel and unusual punishments -- is vacated where, by rejecting the habeas court's application of medical guidance and by following the standard set in Ex parte Briseno, 135 S. W. 3d 1, including the nonclinical Briseno factors, the CCA's decision does not comport with the Eighth Amendment and U.S. Supreme Court precedents.

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• Published 2017/03/28

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• GINSBURG

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• United States Supreme Court

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