Legal Opinion
Drope v. Missouri
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 19, 1975No. 73-6038PublishedCited by 2,426 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari in this case to consider petitioner’s claims that he was deprived of due process of law by the failure of the trial court to order a psychiatric examination with respect to his competence to stand trial and by the conduct in his absence of a portion of his trial on an indictment charging a capital offense.
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In February 1969 an indictment was returned in the Circuit Court of St. Louis, Mo., charging petitioner and two others with the forcible rape of petitioner’s wife. Following severance of petitioner’s case from those of the other defendants and a continuance, on May 27…
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