bench trial you've already found that was held in june two thousand and ten he was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of sixty five and ten years and this is his direct appeal which we've raised two issues  of defendant's right to present evidence of another person's admission that he committed the shooting and that is you i'll simply refer to as the chambers are now this is a very fact weaknesses in the state's case that case consisted of multiple personal vendettas and a love triangle that consisted of my client our own hopkins his lifelong female robert williams's whose name is mark as the court knows the victim in this case was margaret's rather monny who was killed when shots were fired in the front yard of margaret's home just as my client and robert williams appear to be squaring off to fight each other now i'm going to focus my time here this afternoon in the chambers are i'll have some comments dealing with the prejudice that resulted and those four factors are that the statement was made spontaneously to a close acquaintance shortly after the two that the statement or statements were cooperate by either of us three that  as a further indicator of trustworthiness is the raw number of independent instances of of confessions by this nine stars in the chambers case the defense wanted to call three different witnesses who were going to relate what they were told by his first name account on different occasions and the court mentioned that the multiple confession accounts was an additional reason on top of things like the proximity to the time of the crime for committing this crime in fact my coins case there is a lot of harm with the chambers both of these cases involve shootings that occurred in the midst of a large group of individuals in fact there were a number of witnesses testified that they saw him firing a gun this mirrored the testimony from the chambers trial in relation to the person they make doll who was seen in possession of the who were prepared to testify about three different instances of sam admitting that he shot lying ways in both cases clearly the statements were incriminating so three or four factors from chambers including the multiple instances of confessions were present in favor of admitting the out of court states the only one that we're missing is  both chambers and our case there were a number of witnesses who could see the the charges defendant when the shot to kill the victim was fired and they testify that the defendant did not have a gun a that's not a substitute for testimony that another person admitted that he did the shooting as in chambers the ruling in our case prevented mr hopkins from calling any of the witnesses w adequately established and would not have been affected even by the testimony about sand traps confessions yet witness testimony stays witnesses and especially that of of margaret williams she was questioned by defense counsel that was the most the scene who had pulled the trigger because i didn't see she also gave a sequence of the of the shots which was totally sync with every body else is an indication in this case she she doesn't fire there was a shot that went whizzing by her head and then there were other shots including the one th house and one of them struck a person in john thomas as he was making his way into the house so you know martin sequence could not have happened that way unless all the other witnesses who testified were off in testimony was not heartless and chambers itself it could not have been harmless in this case either no i've only focused on the second issue but but i would really urge that there are scrutinised it's the first issue all had an opportunity at some point in time in the time of the shooting for the final trial to come forth and say something they said nothing the trial judge found this to be totally incredible you've got you've got this individual you've got this this family member in jail charged with murder and you don't come forward and say anything in fact i believe it was lucy even testified at trial that this is the first time she was really telling anybody anything about my opinion based them on the case well ok first of all a lot of her twelve days afterwards i don't think there's a reason i like it quite honestly i don't recall anyone being at the scene and actually firing a gun and trying to cross over the five yards to the chambers analysis there is a fundamental problem and that is that the chambers factors are to be w objective fashion so that just would be committing murder though he didn't even look at the factors in this case if he had looked at the factors instead simply well i'm not finding that these factors are met because i'm not particularly thought was worthy of a response is pointing out the reticence of the family members as if that somehow strength this state's case against tyrone hopkins you know they're it's true that the the children of the teenage witnesses to which were heroes sons waited until the trial so well the dad was on the witness around the defending himself from from murder conviction to make their comments but i think looking at their perspective which was that they know that i