Opinion ID: 6216640
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Detective Lawrence Testimony.

Text: ¶17 The State presented the testimony of police detective Chad Lawrence regarding his follow-up post-arrest questioning of Lake regarding his earlier written statement to police. 12 Detective Lawrence testified that he was trying to get Lake to clarify his written statement “about being slandered by” Zitnik, to wit: [State]: And so did you . . . [ask] him what he meant by the term “slandered”[?] [Detective]: Yeah. . . . [H]e said that [he and Zitnik] . . . [knew] each other [as] semi-friends at one point and that he believed that Mr. Zitnik had told other people things that he had told him. [State]: And so did you get into specifics about the slander part? [Detective]: Yeah. . . . [H]e brought up that he likes to say things to shock other people . . . [and] he gave us an example of, “What’s black and blue and hates sex?” [We] did not respond and he said, “[t]he five-yearold boy in my trunk.” . . . He said he would say things like that that would cause shock in others . . . [a]nd . . . he said he was nicknamed “skull fucker.” [State]: And did he tell you how that caused the other man . . . to react toward him? [Detective]: [Lake] said that he was telling other people . . . about his sexual desires or something to that effect with children and this man told the other people . . . about that stuff and there was some animosity between them. [(Emphasis added.)]