Moore v. Texas (2017) - Wikipedia
WEBMoore v. Texas, 137 S. Ct. 1039 (2017), is a United States Supreme Court decision about the death penalty and intellectual disability.
Moore v. Texas, 581 U.S. ___ (2017) - Justia US Supreme Court …
WEBMoore v. Texas, 581 U.S. ___ (2017) Docket No. 15-797. Granted: June 6, 2016. Argued: November 29, 2016. Decided: March 28, 2017. Justia Summary. Moore was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for shooting a clerk during a robbery that occurred when Moore was 20 years old.
Moore v. Texas, 586 U.S. ___ (2019) - Justia US Supreme Court …
WEBMoore v. Texas: Supreme Court reverses, for a second time, a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals finding that a death row inmate did not have an intellectual disability.
Moore v. Texas | Oyez
WEBFeb 19, 2019 · Facts of the case. In 2016, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Moore v. Texas, 581 U.S. __ (2017), to resolve the question whether the use of outdated medical standards regarding intellectual disability to determine whether a person is exempt from execution violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition …
Moore v. Texas | Oyez
WEBNov 29, 2016 · In 1980, Bobby James Moore was convicted of capital murder for the shooting of James McCarble, a seventy-year-old store clerk, in Houston, Texas. Moore was sentenced to death, and his conviction and sentence were both affirmed on appeal.
Moore v. Texas - SCOTUSblog
WEBNov 29, 2016 · Moore v. Texas. Holding: By rejecting the habeas court's application of current medical diagnostic standards and by following the standard under Ex parte Briseno, including the nonclinical Briseno factors, the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals does not comport with the Eighth Amendment and Supreme Court precedents.
Moore v. Texas - American Psychological Association (APA)
WEBOn March 28, 2017, in a 5-3 decision, the Supreme Court found that Texas erred in using a decades-old lay interpretation of intellectual disability to determine whether defendants faced the death penalty.
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WEBNov 29, 2016 · In 1980, Bobby James Moore was convicted of murder in Texas and sentenced to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Moore’s conviction and sentence and denied his state habeas corpus petition.
WEBA Texas trial court determined that Bobby James Moore had an intellec-tual disability that rendered him ineligible for the death penalty under Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U. S. 304. The Texas Court of Criminal Ap-peals reversed. Ex parte Moore, 470 S. W. 3d 481, 527–528.
Moore v. Texas - American Civil Liberties Union
WEBAug 4, 2016 · Moore v. Texas - Ruling. Whether Texas is violating the Constitution by using a test to determine intellectual disability in death penalty cases that is inconsistent with both Supreme Court precedent and science.
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