Opinion: Criminal defense counsel should understand that trial courts will rely on Villarreal v. Texas moving forward and ...

The Supreme Court has upheld a decades-long prison sentence for a Bexar County man convicted of fatally stabbing his ...

Justice Clarence Thomas criticized the Supreme Court majority for “needlessly" expanding precedent in a unanimous decision involving attorney-client talks.

SAN ANTONIO - The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the conviction and 60-year prison sentence of a San Antonio man ...

The Supreme Court agreed, the trial court here struck the appropriate balance between Villarreal’s Sixth Amendment right to counsel.

With the Supreme Court’s decision, Villarreal’s appeals have been exhausted and his sentence stands. The ruling gives trial judges clearer authority to craft limited conferral orders, and defense ...

The Supreme Court held unanimously that a Texas trial judge court did not violate the Sixth Amendment by barring an attorney from conferring with his client about his ongoing testimony during an ...

Despite coming to a unanimous decision, a bitter split over the reasoning led two justices to accuse their colleagues of “needlessly” expanding the high court’s precedents.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that courts may place limitations on what a lawyer can discuss with his client during an overnight recess while the client is in the middle of testifying, finding ...

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David Villarreal had argued his Sixth Amendment right to counsel was violated. The nation's highest court disagreed and upheld the murder conviction.