1. Whether McCoy v. Louisiana prohibits only explicit admissions of guilt, or also bars functional concessions — such as conceding elements, conditional authorizations to convict, or conceding predicate offenses that establish guilt under accomplice or law-of-parties theories — when those concessions override the defendant's objective of maintaining innocence.

2. Whether the Sixth Amendment autonomy right recognized in McCoy v. Louisiana is violated when defense counsel, over the defendant's express insistence on innocence, authorizes the jury to convict the defendant of a lesser included offense that functions as the predicate offense for capital or felony murder under an accomplice-liability theory.

Whether McCoy v. Louisiana prohibits only explicit admissions of guilt or also bars functional concessions that override a defendant's objective of maintaining innocence