Ake V. Oklahoma
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Date decided | 1985 |
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Ruling court | Supreme Court of the United States |
Citations | L. Ed. 2d |
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ID | 739903 |
About Ake V. Oklahoma
Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U. S. 68, was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment required the state to provide a psychiatric evaluation to be used on behalf of an indigent criminal defendant if he needed it.