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Thread: Gerald Ross Pizzuto, Jr. - Idaho Death Row

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    Court revives Idaho death row inmate's IQ claim

    The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says a federal judge in Idaho must reconsider whether a death row inmate is too mentally disabled to be executed.

    Tuesday's order in Gerald Pizzuto Jr.'s case came in the wake of an earlier U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The high court found in a case out of Florida that states can't use a fixed IQ score to determine whether an inmate may be put to death.

    Pizzuto was sentenced to death in 1986 for the murders of Berta Herndon and Del Dean Herndon as they were prospecting near McCall. Pizzuto claims that he is too mentally disabled to be executed under Idaho law, which defines mental disability as an IQ of 70 or less. The state says Pizzuto's IQ is higher.

    http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/C...im-5627984.php
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    I don't understand. Didn't the 9th already deny his claims back in September 2013?

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    Some more bedtime reading for you, MRBAM:

    PIZZUTO v BLADES
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    Ah, another "let's take another look because we can" case.

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    Oral argument will be heard on September 17, 2014 in Pizzuto's case before a Ninth Circuit panel made up of Judges Fisher, Gould and Rawlinson. All three are Clinton appointees.

    http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/calendar...5-19&year=2014

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    How long will a ruling take to arrive now? It has been nearly 5 months

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    The 9th takes forever..........5 months is nothing. Ask again after a year has gone by.

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    On April 22, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit DENIED Pizzuto's appeal.

    http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastor...2/13-35443.pdf

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    On December 28, 2016, Pizzuto filed another appeal before the Ninth Circuit.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ci...s/ca9/16-36082

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    On December 11, 2018, oral argument will be heard in Pizzuto's appeal before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The panel will be made up of Senior Judge Fisher (Clinton), Judge Gould (Clinton) and Judge Rawlinson (Clinton).

    https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/calenda...7-21&year=2018

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