Ake v. Oklahoma

Ake v. Oklahoma
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 7, 1984 Decided February 26, 1985
Full case name	Glen Burton Ake v. Oklahoma
Citations	470 U.S. 68 (more) 105 S. Ct. 1087; 84 L. Ed. 2d 53; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 52; 53 U.S.L.W. 4179
Case history
Prior	On appeal from the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma
Holding
Where the sanity of an indigent criminal defendant is likely to be a significant factor at trial, the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the state to provide him with access to a psychiatrist to assist in his defense at no cost to himself.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Marshall, joined by Brennan, White, Blackmun, Powell, Stevens, O'Connor
Concurrence	Burger
Dissent	Rehnquist
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 U.S. 68 (1985), 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.^[1][2]