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Estelle v. Smith 451 U.S. 454 (1981) was a United States 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.