Legal Opinion
Ake v. Oklahoma
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 26, 1985No. 83-5424PublishedCited by 3,044 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
The issue in this case is whether the Constitution requires that an indigent defendant have access to the psychiatric examination and assistance necessary to prepare an effective defense based on his mental condition, when his sanity at the time of the offense is seriously in question.
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Late in 1979, Glen Burton Ake was arrested and charged with murdering a couple and wounding their two children. He was arraigned in the District Court for Canadian County, *71Okla., in February 1980. His behavior at arraignment, and in other prearraignment incidents at the jail, was so bizarre that the trial…
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