United States eighth amendmentintellectual disabilityaedpa

Brumfield v. Cain

576 U.S. 305 (2015)

JurisdictionUnited States

CourtSupreme Court of the United States

Year2015

StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A state court's rejection of an Atkins intellectual-disability claim without an evidentiary hearing rested on an unreasonable determination of the facts under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d)(2), entitling the petitioner to have the claim heard on the merits in federal court.

Area of Law

General

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