Villarreal v. Texas · ¶7

This case requires us to navigate a tension between one of those rights and one of those burdens. The right is a defendant's entitlement to the advice of counsel unrestricted by judicial interference. The burden is a witness's responsibility to offer sworn testimony uninfuenced by a lawyer's midstream tinkering. Both are longstanding and fundamental, as the right forms the heart of the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel and the burden serves the central truth- seeking function of a trial.

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