Dusky v. United States, 362 U.S. 402 (1960), was a landmark United States Supreme Courtcase in which the Court affirmed a defendant's right to have a competency evaluation before proceeding to trial.In this case, the court outlined the basic standards for

Ford v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 399 (1986), was the case in which the United StatesSupreme Court upheld the common law rule that the insane cannot be executed; therefore the petitioner is entitled to a competency evaluation and to an evidentiary hearing in c

Godinez v. Moran, 509 U.S. 389 (1993), was a landmark decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that if a defendant was competent to stand trial, they were automatically competent to plead guilty, and thereby waive the panoply of trial rights, includ

Rogers v. Okin was a landmark case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit considered whether a mental patient, committed to a state psychiatric facility and assumed to be competent, has the right to make treatment decisions in n