Busby v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate ·

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1. “when a state court issues an order that summarily rejects without discussion all the claims raised by a defendant, including a federal claim that the defendant subsequently presses in a federal habeas proceeding, the federal habeas court must presume (subject to rebuttal) that the federal claim was adjudicated on the merits.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Busby v. Davis

2. “[a] number of sources of data including school records, behavioral descriptions provided by Mr. Busby as well as his family, teachers, and peers, and results of standardized tests, indicate that at a young age Mr. Busby demonstrated significant signs of impaired/limited academic and intellectual/mental abilities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Busby v. Davis

3. “[a] mental retardation expert would opine, however, that the Beta IQ test, because of its less comprehensive nature, is widely acknowledged to inflate IQ scores generally, to be subject to a higher Flynn Effect rate than the Wechsler scales, and to be less reliable overall than the Wechsler Scales.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Busby v. Davis