Com. v. Hilliard

--------------- Justice AGEE, concurring in part and dissenting in part.

I join the majority in affirming that portion of the Court of Appeals judgment that (1) Hilliard failed to properly preserve his Sixth Amendment claim for appeal and (2) neither of Hilliard's first two purported requests for an attorney constituted a clear invocation of his right to counsel. However, I write separately because I disagree that Hilliard's third alleged request for an attorney "express[ed] an unequivocal request for counsel."

The right to counsel established in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 , 469-73, 86…