Chase v. Mississippi
Petition for certiorari denied on April 3, 2017
15-7073 Miss. N/A N/A N/A N/A OT 2016
Issue: (1) Whether it violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as understood in Atkins v. Virginia and Hall v. Florida, for a State court to refuse to accept data from clinical interviews with persons who knew a death-sentenced prisoner during the "developmental period" where the uncontested testimony and scientific and clinical consensus finds such data to be useful in determining the second criteria for intellectual disability, i.e., adaptive functioning deficits; (2) whether it violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, as understood in Atkins and Hall, for a State court to impose a requirement that a death-sentenced prisoner present "normed data" from clinical instruments in order to prove the second criteria for intellectual disability under Atkins; and (3) whether it violates the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause for a State court to create a novel requirement that a death-sentenced prisoner present "normed data" from clinical instruments in order to prove the second criteria for intellectual disability under Atkins, and impose that requirement to deny relief to a prisoner who had no notice of the requirement during his evidentiary hearing.
Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
Nov 18 2015 Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 23, 2015)
Apr 23 2016 Brief of respondent Mississippi in opposition filed.
May 11 2016 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 26, 2016.
May 18 2016 Record Requested .
May 19 2016 Record received from the Supreme Court of Mississippi. The record is electronic.
May 25 2016 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 9, 2016.
Jun 13 2016 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 16, 2016.
Mar 29 2017 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of March 31, 2017.
Apr 3 2017 Petition DENIED.