Legal Opinion
Tommy R. Pruitt v. Ron Neal
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 2, 2015No. 13-1880PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TINDER, Circuit Judge.
Tommy R. Pruitt appeals the district court’s denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. A jury in Indiana state court convicted Pruitt of murdering a deputy sheriff and he was sentenced to death. His petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 raises four claims: (1) he is intellectually disabled and therefore categorically and constitutionally ineligible for the death penalty; (2) his trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance in violation of his Sixth Amendment rights by failing to present evidence to support his claim of intellectual disability; (3) his trial counsel…
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