says i guess you'll have to go on a walk then and call my lawyer but then he says more after that right he says because i don't know what you're talking about i'll be honest with you like i said we're friends i've never seen that woman  in my life i mean the rest of the statement suggests that he's still talking i'll be honest with you what does that mean i'm still talking to you all be honest with you if he if it was an unequivocal request for a lawyer he'd say ok i guess you have to lock me up situation well i'd like to do that so to be clear the statement was in response to officer asking whether the accused understood his miranda rights and not actually whether he wished to invoke  cases from the supreme court in this one make clear that the individual need not make their request with perfect linguistic precision in addition to this mysterio annoyed that we just discussed for offer us and under those circumstances it's clear there's some kind of negotiation going on and which is which is i think you should reflect didn't make the decisions relying on the fact that they were in some kind of bargaining position  very powerful evidence they are the words of the strangling himself and the commonwealth did play a recording of near the two hour interrogation at trial you know obviously they thought it would have an impact on the jury there was a ten thousand dollars reward for evidence leading to somebody a conviction you know i think as part of the lower court proceedings i think the magistrate judge one point noted that the statements are not as most articulate his desire for counsel sufficiently clearly that a reasonable officer in his stances were understand it or quest for eternity then we take those three little words common lawyer way the context he was he was presented with this kind of binary choice right you can cooperate or not any says you know work or then you're going to go i guess you're going to lock me up and call my lawyer because i'm choosing option statements the entire friends and i've never seen that lady he'd ever stopped he never asked for them to stop he never articulated that he wanted his heard in there he lawyer he didn't say i need a lawyer here and it wasn't the problem in david's that he was headed to maybe i should speak to or maybe indicating maybe maybe the the other thing is that without it i think there was plenty of evidence for the jury or for us that shared experience of preparing for the murder they even went to the house two different times that it would be viewed under the case because he's on tape with an informant so it's kind of i can you know another confession i guess but i don't remember if you cite any cases where there were where this kind of thing was harmless and i did not sorry if the confession is problematic then what do we do with the affidavit because the harmless error analysis on the affidavit relies d d on the confession being ok doesn't it he wasn't arrested until afterwards fourteen forward the detective testified that the case would never have been solved without one for so it was it was he he just wanted a little bit more detail he really didn't go beyond the one punch except he said i did all the words and the victim actually died of said i did all the work i want the money i mean what is he talking about i really didn't do anything but he didn't mean it doesn't mean it seems to me