Intellectual Disability in Capital Murder Cases: Failure to Introduce Mitigating Evidence That Does Not Outweigh the Aggravating Evidence It Invites Does Not Constitute Ineffective Assistance of Counsel.

The article discusses a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit case Rodriguez v. Sec'y, Fla. Dep't of Corr. involving the ineligibility for the death penalty because of intellectual disability. It reports the story of Juan David Rodriguez who was found guilty of several charges and later filed a motion for determination of intellectual disability. The Eleventh Circuit ruled that the postconviction mitigating evidence presented was weak.