Villarreal v. Texas · ¶9

This case presents a third scenario: an overnight recess that interrupts a defendant's testimony—but one in which the court allows counsel to speak with his client while limiting the content of the discussion. The court here prohibited the defendant's lawyer only from “managing” the defendant's testimony; it permitted all other discussion. Because we conclude that this qualified conferral order permissibly balanced the right to counsel against the burden of offering unaltered trial testimony, we affirm.

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