“From what I’ve read, a great deal went on in that house without anybody agreeing to it.”

Claire sat in the second row with her capped yellow pen clenched in her fist.

Thomas Miller sat four feet to her left in a gray suit, and when the judge said the word house, Thomas adjusted his leather watch strap and let his hand drop back into his lap.

“The state asks that the recording remain in the file as filed while we submit briefs,” Mark said.

“The state is asking us to call a conversation in a hallway a confession,” Pendelton said.