Andrea L. Richard, Wsb No. 5-2848 v. Board of Professional Responsibility, Wyoming State Bar

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• explaining that courts can consider the “surrounding circumstances” of a request, including the response of the officers, to “confirm that a reasonable officer would understand [the suspect’s] statement to be a clear request for counsel”
• finding it appropriate for a reviewing court to look to the surrounding circumstances to evaluate the clarity of a suspect’s request for counsel
• finding no error because “the prosecutor prefaced this part of his argument by advising the jury: ‘and exactly what was said probably we’ll never know but probably went something like this.... ’ ”
• finding persuasive that officer’s actions showed understanding of request for counsel
• “[L]anguage that might be less than clear, when viewed in isolation, can become clear and unambiguous when the immediately surrounding circumstances render them so.”
• analyzing “the circumstances surrounding the statement”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).