United States v. Thomas Walker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defendant’s statement that “he wasn’t sure whether he should talk to [an FBI agent] because he was afraid it would piss his lawyer off’ was not an unambiguous and unequivocal request for a lawyer
• suspect’s ambiguous statement interpreted in light of his later agree- ment that police could “go ahead” with their questioning
• defendant’s statement that “he wasn’t sure whether he should talk to [the agent] because he was afraid it would piss his lawyer off” not an unambigu- ous request
• suspect said he “wasn’t sure whether he should talk to [agent] because he was afraid it would piss his lawyer off’ and later told agent to “go ahead” with interrogation in response to clarifying question about whether suspect wanted counsel

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