Hamm v. Smith · ¶97

When Alabama petitioned this Court for certiorari, we granted the petition and vacated the Eleventh Circuit's judgment. Hamm v. Smith, 604 U. S. 1 (2024) (per curiam). The Court asked for clarification about the Eleventh Circuit's reasoning. Id., at 2. On one reading, the Court thought, the Eleventh Circuit's decision “would suggest a per se rule that the lower end of the standard-error range for an offend- er's lowest score is dispositive.” Ibid. Another reading, under which the decision would be more defensible, “would suggest a more holistic approach to multiple IQ scores that considers the relevant evidence.” Ibid. The Court then invited the Eleventh Circuit to clarify which of those two meanings it intended. Id., at 2–3.

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