Estelle v. Smith
Case Date: 05/05/1981
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Estelle v. Smith, 451 U.S. 454 (1981) is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court held that, per Miranda v. Arizona (1966), the state may not force a defendant to submit to a psychiatric examination solely for the purposes of sentencing. Any such examination violates the defendant's Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination as well as the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and is therefore inadmissible at sentencing.[1]
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