Scott v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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1. “[N]o defendant may be adjudged mentally retarded for purposes of the Eighth Amendment, unless such defendant produces, at a minimum, an expert who expresses an opinion, to a reasonable degree of certainty, that: 1. The defendant is mentally retarded, as that term is defined by the American Association on Mental Retardation and/or The American Psychiatric Association; 13 2. The defendant has completed the Minnesota Multi phasic Personality Inventory-II (MMPI-II) and/or other similar tests, and the defendant is not malingering.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State of Mississippi v. Kevin Scott

2. “The benchmark for judging any claim of ineffectiveness [of counsel] must be whether counsel's conduct so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 964 So. 2d 1167 - Hancock v. State