Indiana v. Edwards

Indiana v. Edwards
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 26, 2008 Decided June 19, 2008
Full case name	State of Indiana v. Ahmad Edwards
Docket no.	07-208
Citations	554 U.S. 164 (more) 128 S. Ct. 2379; 171 L. Ed. 2d 345
Case history
Prior	Conviction reversed by the Indiana Supreme Court, 866 N.E.2d 252 (Ind. 2007)
Holding
A criminal defendant who is competent to stand trial may nevertheless be found incompetent to represent himself at that trial.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy · David Souter Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito
Case opinions
Majority	Breyer, joined by Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, Alito
Dissent	Scalia, joined by Thomas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. VI, XIV

Indiana v. Edwards, 554 U.S. 164 (2008), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the standard for competency to stand trial was not linked to the standard for competency to represent oneself.