Riggins v. Nevada

Riggins v. Nevada
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 15, 1992 Decided May 18, 1992
Full case name	Riggins v. Nevada
Citations	504 U.S. 127 (more) 112 S. Ct. 1810; 118 L. Ed. 2d 479
Case history
Prior	Riggins v. State, 107 Nev. 178, 808 P.2d 535 (1991)
Holding
The forcible medication of the petitioner on trial violated his rights guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments.
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	O'Connor, joined by Rehnquist, White, Blackmun, Stevens, Souter
Concurrence	Kennedy (in judgment)
Dissent	Thomas, joined by Scalia (except as to Part II–A)
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amends. VI, XIV

Riggins v. Nevada, 504 U.S. 127 (1992), is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court decided whether a mentally ill person can be forced to take antipsychotic medication while they are on trial to allow the state to make sure they remain competent during the trial.^[1]