Ryan v. Valencia Gonzales

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Ryan v. Valencia Gonzales
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 9, 2012 Decided January 8, 2013
Full case name	Charles L. Ryan, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Petitioner v. Ernest Valencia Gonzales; Terry Tibbals v. Sean Carter
Docket nos.	10-930 11-218
Citations	568 U.S. 57 (more) 133 S. Ct. 696; 184 L. Ed. 2d 528; 2013 U.S. LEXIS 598; 81 U.S.L.W. 4025
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Gonzales v. United States Dist. Court for Dist. of Ariz., 623 F.3d 1242 (9th Cir. 2010); cert. granted, 565 U.S. 1259 (2012); Carter v. Bradshaw, 644 F.3d 329 (6th Cir. 2011); cert. granted, 565 U.S. 1259 (2012).
Holding
Petitioners need not be competent during federal habeas corpus proceedings.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinion
Majority	Thomas, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
§3599 and §4241 United States Code, U.S. Const. amend. VI

Ryan v. Valencia Gonzales, 568 U.S. 57 (2013), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a defendant on death row did not need to be held competent during federal habeas corpus proceedings.^[1]