Villarreal v. Texas · ¶48

Uncompromising no-testimony-discussion orders like those are easy to articulate and hard to apply. That is because, as we have explained, protected discussion—e. g., deliberation over whether to accept a guilty plea—often must involve some discussion of testimony. The courts of appeals that have prohibited blanket no-discussion orders have reasonably feared that directives preventing all discussion of testimony, full stop, would be impermissibly overbroad and thus dilute the Sixth Amendment's guarantee.

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