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Cooper Vs. Oklahoma

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 16, 1996

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  1. Medina Vs. California US Supreme Court · Feb 25, 1992
  2. Drope Vs. Missouri US Supreme Court · Feb 19, 1975
  3. Pate Vs. Robinson US Supreme Court · Mar 07, 1966
  4. Riggins Vs. Nevada US Supreme Court · May 18, 1992
  5. U.S. 348 (1996) October Term, 1995 Syllabus Cooper V. Oklahoma
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  6. a) It is well settled that the criminal trial of an incompetent defendant violates due process. Medina v. California
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  7. Process Clause when, as here, the procedures do not sufficiently protect a fundamental constitutional right. Patterson v. New
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  8. York, 432 U. S. 197 , distinguished. The decision herein is in complete accord with the ruling in Addington v. Texas
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  9. witnesses, and the right to testify on one's own behalf or to remain silent without penalty for doing so. Drope v. Missouri
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  10. a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.''' Dusky v. United
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  11. to merit protection even if the defendant has failed to make a timely request for a competency determination. See Pate v. Robinson
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  12. the charges and proceedings brought against him and to effectively and 355 Our recent decision in Medina v. California
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  13. Id., at 445 (quoting Patterson v. New
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  14. King v. Steel
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  15. Beginning in the late 18th century, cases appear which provide an inkling of the proper standard. In King v. Frith
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  16. Id., at 311. Some 50 years later the jurors received a nearly identical admonition in Queen v. Goode
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  17. Id., at 536, n. (a), 112 Eng. Rep., at 572-573, n. (a)2. 8 Similarly, in King v. Pritchard
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  18. Ibid. See also King v. Dyson
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  19. Queen v. Southey
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  20. Queen v. Berry
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  21. King v. Pritchard
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  22. including Pritchard and King v. Dyson
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  23. Car. & P. 305, n. (a), 173 Eng. Rep. 135, n. (a) (1831), the court in Queen v. Podola
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  24. some 19th-century English authorities placed the burden on the prosecutor once competence was put in issue. Medina v. California
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  25. U. S., at 447. See Queen v. Davies
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  26. But see Queen v. Podola
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  27. quite recently. Rather, the earliest available sources typically refer to English authorities, see, e. g., Freeman v. People
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  28. Am. Dec. 216, 223-225 (N. Y. 1847), State v. Harris
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  29. Am. Dec. 272, 272-275 (N. C. 1860) (adopting procedures outlined in King v. Dyson
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  30. Car. & P. 305, n. (a), 173 Eng. Rep. 135, n. (a) (1831), and King v. Pritchard
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  31. Eng. Rep. 135 (1836)), and employ the disjunctive language used by the English courts, see, e. g., Commonwealth v. Hathaway
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  32. People v. Kleim
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  33. United States v. Chisolm
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  34. State v. O'Grady
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  35. Some 15 years later, the Tennessee Supreme Court described the competency determination as 12 In Commonwealth v. Braley
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  36. disjunctive. 13 See also State v. Tyler
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  37. by the evidence supporting that conclusion). Both Tyler and State v. O'Grady
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  38. Jordan v. State
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  39. Commonwealth v. Simanowicz
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  40. criminal defendant to prove his incompetence by clear and convincing evidence.16 None of the re- 14 See also State v. Arnold
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  41. People v. McElvaine
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  42. See also Crocker v. State
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  43. explicitly mention the common-law roots of the State's statutory procedure for determining competency. See People v. McElvaine
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  44. French v. State
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  45. the prosecutor to by Oklahoma and Connecticut may have been a response to this Court's decision in Addington v. Texas
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  46. U. S. 418 (1979). We discuss Addington infra, at 368-369. 17See Lackey v. State
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  47. M cCarlo v. State
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  48. Diaz v. State
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  49. Flowers v. State
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  50. Syllabus Cooper V. Oklahoma
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