An attempt to provide understandable and up-to-date information regarding intelligence testing, intelligence theories, personal competence, adaptive behavior and intellectual disability (mental retardation) as they relate to death penalty (capital punishment) issues. A particular focus will be on psychological measurement, statistical and psychometric issues.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Burns on FYIPOST: Structural Errors, Procedural Default, and Ineffective Assistance
Amy Knight Burns has posted Insurmountable Obstacles: Structural Errors, Procedural Default, and Ineffective Assistance (Stanford Law Review, Vol. 64, 2011) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Federal habeas corpus procedure involves an elaborate set of rules for when state criminal...
