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WEBSTER v. WATSON

No. 19-2683.

975 F.3d 667 (2020)

Bruce Carneil WEBSTER, Petitioner-Appellee, v. T. J. WATSON, Warden, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 22, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathryn Johnson, Esq. , Kirsten E. Schubert , Steven J. Wells , Attorneys, Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis, MN, Monica Foster , Florence Italia Patti , Attorneys, Indiana Federal Community Defenders, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Erin Nealy Cox , Joseph Andrew Magliolo , Leigha Simonton , Jay S. Weimer , Attorneys, Office of the United States Attorney, Northern District of Texas, Dallas, TX, for Respondent-Appellant.

Before Kanne, Hamilton, and Scudder, Circuit Judges.

In 1996 the federal district court in Fort Worth, Texas sentenced Bruce Webster to death for the murder two years earlier of a 16-year-old girl. Ever since Webster has sought relief from that sentence on the same ground he advanced at trial—that he is intellectually disabled. His efforts gained traction in 2009, when...

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