Shoop v. Hill

Decided January 7, 2019. The Court ruled per curiam — an unsigned opinion of the Court.

Docket 18-56 · 586 U.S. 45 · Cited 175 times

Because Hill’s intellectual disability claim must be evaluated based solely on holdings of this Court that were clearly established at the time the state-court decisions were rendered, see 28 U. S. C. §2254(d)(1), the Sixth Circuit’s reliance on Moore v. Texas, 581 U. S. ___—which was handed down much later—was plainly improper.

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