 I see, but when you said, `I want to see the bed,' the next time he took you right in and said, `You can see the bed all you want.'
"A. Yes.
"Q. At any time did he refuse you permission to see anything in the house?
"A. No."
Sgt. Svidal was accompanied by Sgt. Bostard on December 24th when Sgt. Svidal sought permission for members of the laboratory staff to return to defendant's residence to complete their investigation. Respecting this incident, Sgt. Bostard testified:
"A. Sergeant Svidal asked the defendant or told the defendant that he *1019 was interested in going back to Mr. Tremayne's residence and search for and possibly seize anything that he considered to be of evidentiary value. He started "to tell Mr. Tremayne that in the absence of Mr. Tremayne's consent he could secure a search warrant and do so and Mr. Tremayne interrupted him and said, `No, as I said before, you can tear the house down, take anything that you want,' words to that effect."
As related by Sgt. Svidal, defendant gave permission to the officers to return to his residence to continue the investigation and stated: "Like I said before, go ahead, take the place apart, because I know the murder happened there"; and then added, "If I had been smart, I would have taken my dad's advice and not said anything from the beginning." This remark is proof defendant, throughout the investigation, knew he could remain silent and refuse to grant permission to search his residence. Pertinent in this regard is the fact the officers, on December 23d, asked defendant to take a lie detector test and he declined because "his father had advised him not to take it." Defendant did not act in submission to an express or implied assertion of authority by the officers.
(13) Defendant contends incriminating statements he made while in jail on December 24th and on December 25th are inadmissible because he had exercised his Miranda right to remain silent, which forecloses the use of those statements. The claimed exercise of defendant's Miranda right is premised upon h