for Louisiana State Bar Association
1. Ake v. Oklahoma, No. 83-5424, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, November 7, 1984, Argued , February 26, 1985, Decided
OVERVIEW: Failure of a State to provide indigent petitioner with access to psychiatric assistance in order to prepare his insanity defense to the charge of murder and to assist in sentencing was a violation of petitioner's due process rights.
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