Hall v. State

OPINION

PATRICK A. PIRTLE, Justice.

The ability to obtain uncoerced confessions is not an evil but an unmitigated good. Justice Scalia, McNeil v. Wisconsin, 501 U.S. 171, 181, 111 S.Ct. 2204, 115 L.Ed.2d 158 (1991).

Appellant, Robert D. Hall, was convicted by a jury of possession with intent to deliver cocaine 1 weighing less than two hundred grams but at least four grams, a first degree felony 2 and was sentenced to confinement for forty years. In a single point of error, Appellant asserts the trial court violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel when it admitted into evidence his…