The Constitution Project, Amicus Curiae
Meir Feder, Counsel of Record
The Constitution Project is a bipartisan nonprofit organization focusing on procedural fairness and due process in the criminal justice system. Meir Feder is a partner in the law firm Jones Day, where he specializes in civil and criminal litigation. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 4, 2016. When it comes to diagnosing intellectual disability in death penalty cases, Texas is an outlier — and not by accident. After this Court decided Atkins v. Virginia (2002), Texas responded with Ex Parte Briseno (Tex. Crim. App. 2004). Briseno…
