Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Nov 06, 2019
After being reversed twice by the United States Supreme Court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) has resentenced intellectually disabled death-row prisoner Bobby James Moore to life in prison. In a three‑p…
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Jun 10, 2020
Bobby Moore (pictured), the man at the center of a case that altered how Texas determines intellectual disability in death-penalty cases, has been granted parole after spending 40 years in prison. He served nearly…
Arbitrariness
,Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Nov 30, 2018
Twenty months after the Unites States Supreme Court unanimously struck down Texas’s non-scientific standard for evaluating intellectual disability in death penalty cases, the landmark case in which it made that de…
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Mar 28, 2017
The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously struck down Texas’ standard for evaluating intellectual disability in death penalty cases, calling the state’s approach an “outlier” that, “[b]y design and in operation, … create[s] an unacceptable risk tha…
Prosecutorial Accountability
,Mar 31, 2020
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA) has once again rejected the findings of a trial court that a death-row prisoner was entitled to relief from his conviction or death sentence. Applying a narrow interpretation of …
Intellectual Disability
,Nov 02, 2017
In a Houston death-penalty case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and resulted in a decision overturning the Texas courts’ standard for determining Intellectual Disability…
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Feb 20, 2019
Overturning the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals for the second time, the United States Supreme Court ruled on February 19, 2019, that Texas death-row prisoner Bobby James Moore is intellectually d…
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Nov 30, 2016
During argument November 29 in the case of Moore v. Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court expressed skepticism about Texas’ idiosyncratic method of deciding…
Intellectual Disability
,United States Supreme Court
,Jun 07, 2018
In a ruling three dissenters criticized as an “outlier,” and after having been rebuked by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2017 for ignoring the medical consensus defining intellectual disability, a sharply divided (5 – 3) Texas Court of Criminal A…
