Villarreal v. Texas · ¶8

We have twice addressed this tension in the context of a trial recess that interrupts a defendant's testimony. We held in Geders v. United States, 425 U. S. 80 (1976), that a court may not prevent a testifying defendant from conferring with his lawyer during an overnight recess. We held in Perry v. Leeke, 488 U. S. 272 (1989), that a court may prevent a testifying defendant from conferring with his lawyer during a brief daytime recess. The trial courts in both cases had imposed unqualifed bans that separated client from counsel entirely.

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