In Re: Ricky Chase, No. 15-60452 (5th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseMovant, convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death, requests authorization to file a successive 28 U.S.C. 2254 application to assert claims that he is intellectually disabled and ineligible for execution under Atkins v. Virginia, and that the Mississippi courts denied due process to him in the adjudication of his Atkins claim. The court concluded that movant has satisfied the prima facie standard for filing a successive section 2254 application. Atkins had not been decided when movant first filed his federal habeas petition and the court concluded that his first federal habeas petition was not an Atkins claim. In his state habeas proceedings, movant presented evidence that his IQ scores are within the range of significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, as well as evidence of deficits in adaptive functioning and of the onset of intellectual disability before the age of 18. Accordingly, the court granted the motion.
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