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At the Supreme Court - Indiana v. Edwards Issued - UPDATED

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Neither Kennedy v. Louisiana, nor Rothgery v. Gillespie County was issued today.  10 cases await a ruling this term SCOTUS Blog reports:The Court has released the opinion in Indiana v. Edwards (07-208), on whether criminal defendants found competent to stand trial must be permitted to represent themselves. The ruling below, which found for the defendant, is vacated and remanded. Justice Breyer wrote the opinion. Justices Scalia and Thomas dissented. We will provide a link to the decision as soon as it is available. The opinion is here.  The ScotusWiki page, here. Lyle Denniston of SCOTUS Blog has commentary.The Supreme Court ruled by a 7-2 vote on Thursday that a state may require a criminal defendant who suffers from a mental illness to have a lawyer, rather than allowing the individual to act as his own defense counsel, even when the individual is competent enough to be tried...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).