JACKSON v. PAYNE

No. 20-1830.

9 F.4th 646 (2021)

Alvin Bernal JACKSON, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Dexter PAYNE, Director, Department of Correction, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: August 13, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin Bernal Jackson , Arkansas Department of Corrections — Varner, Grady, AR, Jeffrey M. Rosenzweig , Little Rock, AR, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Dylan L. Jacobs , Assistant Solicitor General, Pamela Rumpz , Assistant Attorney General, Attorney General's Office, Little Rock, AR, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before SMITH, Chief Judge, SHEPHERD and GRASZ, Circuit Judges.


Alvin Bernal Jackson is an Arkansas prisoner on death row. This is the fourth appeal regarding his petition for federal habeas relief on the basis that he is intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment and Atkins v. Virginia, 536 U.S....

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