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intellectual disabilityeighth amendment
Hamm v. Smith
604 U. S. 1 (2024)
Key Principle
Where a capital defendant has multiple IQ scores bearing on an Atkins intellectual-disability claim, a court may not treat the lower bound of the standard-error range of the single lowest score as per se dispositive; the per curiam Court vacated and remanded because the Eleventh Circuit's opinion was ambiguous as to whether it applied such a per se rule or a holistic, multi-score assessment.
Area of Law
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