Jackson v. Indiana

Jackson v. Indiana
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 18, 1971 Decided June 7, 1972
Full case name	Theon Jackson v. Indiana
Citations	406 U.S. 715 (more) 92 S. Ct. 1845; 32 L. Ed. 2d 435
Case history
Prior	Jackson v. State, 253 Ind. 487, 255 N.E.2d 515 (1970); cert. granted, 401 U.S. 973 (1971).
Holding
The state of Indiana cannot constitutionally commit the petitioner for an indefinite period on the sole grounds that he was incompetent to stand trial on the charges filed against him.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinion
Majority	Blackmun, joined by Burger, Douglas, Brennan, Stewart, White, Marshall
Powell and Rehnquist took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. VIII, XIV

Jackson v. Indiana, 406 U.S. 715 (1972), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that determined a U.S. state violated due process by involuntarily committing a criminal defendant for an indefinite period of time solely on the basis of his permanent incompetency to stand trial on the charges filed against him.^[1][2]