American Railroad v. Mattei

How courts have described this case

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• noting that even if Ake applied, providing further assistance was not constitutionally required given testimony of two psychiatrists that the defendant’s san- ity was not an issue
• “Up to that time [i.e., prior to 1985], without Ake, a state court had no reason to conclude that a criminal defendant had a constitutional right to state-funded psychiatric assistance at any stage of a criminal proceeding”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).