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Thomas v. Allen

607 F.3d 749 (11th Cir. 2010)
JurisdictionUnited States
CourtUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Year2010
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

A federal habeas court may grant Atkins sentencing-phase relief where the state post-conviction finding that the petitioner was not mentally retarded was an unreasonable application of Atkins and an unreasonable determination of the facts; mental retardation requires significantly subaverage intellectual functioning, concurrent adaptive-behavior deficits, and onset before age 18.

Area of Law

General

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