Ex Parte Simpson

ORDER

COCHRAN, J.,

delivered the order for a unanimous court.

Applicant presents thirty-seven allegations, including a claim of mental retardation, in his original application for habeas corpus relief in this death-penalty capital-murder case. The trial judge entered findings of fact and conclusions of law and recommended that relief be denied. We have reviewed the record, and we adopt the trial judge’s findings and conclusions. Therefore, we deny relief. We also dismiss applicant’s “Motion to Consider Additional Evidence of Mental Retardation” because that supplemental material was improperly…