Godinez v. Moran

Godinez v. Moran
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 21, 1993 Decided June 24, 1993
Full case name	Salvador Godinez, Warden v. Richard Allan Moran
Citations	509 U.S. 389 (more) 113 S.Ct. 2680; 125 L. Ed. 2d 321; 1993 U.S. LEXIS 4396
Case history
Prior	Moran v. Godinez, 972 F.2d 263 (9th Cir. 1992); cert. granted, 506 U.S. 1033 (1992).
Holding
The competency standard for pleading guilty is the same as the competency standard for standing trial
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices Byron White · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas
Case opinions
Majority	Thomas, joined by Rehnquist, White, O'Connor, Souter; Scalia, Kennedy (Parts I, II-B, III)
Concurrence	Kennedy (in part and in judgment), joined by Scalia
Dissent	Blackmun, joined by Stevens
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. XIV

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, including the right to counsel.^[1][2]