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Doreen Croser, executive director of the American Association on Mental Retardation, said states should have no trouble rewriting their laws to comply with the court's opinion, so long as they stick to the commonly accepted definition of mental retardation. A person is generally considered Bell&Ross Instrument BR-03 RS-12 retarded if he scores 70 or below on a standard IQ test, has a school history indicating mental retardation dating back to childhood and is unable to function independently in society or care for his own basic needs.Victims rights groups and death penalty advocates said the decision could result in hundreds of appeals from death row inmates who now will claim that they are mentally retarded.

"They've opened a Pandora's box that is going to be never- ending," said Dianne Clements, president of the Houston-based victims rights group Justice For All. "We will flood our appellate courts in paper, and I don't know if they'll be able to recover."Clements also Bell&Ross Instrument RS-10 Croser's definition of mental retardation, saying the Supreme Court didn't outline a standard definition because there is none."There is no bright line that exists with mental retardation, and there are no states with similar qualifications," she said. " . . . The important factor should be the nature of the crime."Next week, the high court is expected to rule on whether judges, instead of juries, can impose death sentences. That decision could affect 800 inmates in Blancpain 36mm Mechanical BP-1 and eight other states where judges decide the sentences after juries convict. Texas is not one of those states.

Texas is one of 20 states allowing the execution of the retarded. These cases in Harris County could be affected by Thursday's ruling.Theodore Goynes, 49 Convicted of raping and murdering Linda Tucker, 25, on Oct. 7, 1990. IQ between 65 and 77.Demetrius Simms, 31 Blancpain 36mm Mechanical BP-2 of murdering Monique Miller, 4, on May 29, 1991. IQ between 66 and 71.Exzavier Stevenson, 34 Convicted of murdering Khalid Masroor and Syed Mehdi on Feb. 16, 2000. IQ of 68.Darrell Carr, 32 Convicted of murdering Priscilla Rangel, 16, on July 23, 1991. IQ between 68 and 70.Tony Dixon, 25 Convicted of murdering Elizabeth Peavy, 34, on May 15, 1994. IQ between 54 and 64.