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To: alancarp

The 3rd and final case for today is Hamm v. Smith.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-872_ec8f.pdf

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Whether and how courts may consider the cumulative effect of multiple IQ scores in assessing an Atkins claim.

Hamm v. Smith, the death penalty case, is dismissed as improvidently granted.

Sotomayor concurs in the decision to dismiss, joined by Jackson.

Thomas dissents from the decision to dismiss; Alito dissents, joined by Thomas and in part by the chief and Gorsuch.


10 posted on 05/21/2026 7:12:05 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

This was a case about how courts should analyze multiple IQ scores when a defendant claims that he is intellectually disabled and therefore cannot be executed.


12 posted on 05/21/2026 7:12:43 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW
Whether and how courts may consider the cumulative effect of multiple IQ scores in assessing an Atkins claim.

Did Jackson have to ask a wayward clerk how to spell IQ?
22 posted on 05/21/2026 12:19:44 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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