Freddie Lee Hall, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee

Summary

On remand, the court held that Hall established intellectual disability under the clinical, statutory, and constitutional standards governing capital sentencing. It concluded that the lower court improperly treated IQ scores and the evidence of adaptive functioning too narrowly, and therefore vacated Hall’s death sentence and directed entry of a life sentence. Justice Canady, dissenting, would have remanded for a new adversarial evidentiary hearing rather than deciding the intellectual-disability issue on the existing record.