Dellinger v. Tennessee

1. Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court’s application of a state procedural rule to bar Petitioner’s claim of intellectual disability, after the state court had already found that Petitioner had made a prima facie showing of intellectual disability, violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. 2. Whether the Tennessee Supreme Court’s application of a state procedural rule to bar Petitioner’s claim of intellectual disability, after the state court had already found that Petitioner had made a prima facie showing of intellectual disability, violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.