1. Whether the Sixth Amendment permits criminal
defense counsel to unilaterally concede his client's
guilt before the jury at trial—over the defendant's
objection—so long as counsel reserves at least one
element of the offense, however innocuous and
incontestable that element may be, thereby avoiding
this Court's edict in McCoy U. Louisiana, 138 S. Ct.
1500 (2018).

2. Whether criminal defense counsel's u
unilateral
concession of guilt to one or more key elements of a
criminal offense at trial—over the defendant's
and ethically
objection—is a c
constitutionally
permissible trial strategy within the meaning of the
assistance
of
counsel
Court's
ineffective
jurisprudence, and whether the prejudice flowing
from such a concession can be measured.

Whether the Sixth Amendment permits criminal-defense-counsel to unilaterally-concede-guilt,