William Thompson, Appellant v. State of Florida, Appellee

Summary

The court held that Thompson was entitled to a new evidentiary hearing on his intellectual-disability claim because the prior proceedings relied on an invalid IQ cutoff and did not provide the conjunctive, interrelated assessment required by governing constitutional law. It therefore reversed the summary denial of post-conviction relief and remanded for a new hearing. Justice Canady, dissenting and joined by Justice Polston, would have denied relief because the governing decision should not apply retroactively.