The lawyer for a man charged with beating his father to death has asked for his client’s statements to be suppressed.

Michael D. Marchalk is charged in the homicide of well-known defense attorney Gary D. Marchalk.

Schuylkill County President Judge William E. Baldwin will review arguments and records before ruling.

State troopers testified at the hearing Monday that Marchalk, 37, told police he used an aluminum baseball bat to bludgeon his father to death on Father’s Day.

State trooper Eric Schaeffer read aloud from the transcript of the conversation he had recorded on June 30 as he and trooper Manuel A. Cabrera brought Marchalk back from Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he had fled after the killing.

“I did what I did, man,” Marchalk told Schaeffer.

“How am I supposed to live with the guilt of killing my father?” Marchalk asked.

“I ended my dad’s life and my life,” he said.

Schaeffer said he recorded the entire conversation with Marchalk, including first reading his Miranda rights, which Marchalk acknowledged.

Schaeffer testified that Marchalk told him his father struck the first blow with the bat, hitting him in the arm.

On the second swing, Marchalk wrested the bat away from his father and hit him six times, Schaeffer said.

The two had been at odds for about a year, and Marchalk told Schaeffer he felt his father favored his brother, Matthew D. Marchalk.

Marchalk also told Schaeffer he wasn’t suicidal, but, “If somebody stabbed me to death in the county jail, I wouldn’t really care.”

When Schaeffer asked Marchalk what he had told the two troopers who had interviewed him in Atlantic City, Marchalk demurred, saying, “They are too disingenuous for me to tell my story to.”

Also testifying were Cpl. Leo Luciani, trooper Michael Marinchak, and Cabrera.

Marchalk was staying with his father at the family home at 21 Pear St. on June 18, with plans to enroll in a drug rehab program the morning of June 19.

But after an argument in which his father refused to give him money for heroin so he “wouldn’t get sick at rehab,” Marchalk beat him with the bat that his father, 60, kept close by because “he was afraid of my stepbrother,” Michael Marchalk told Schaeffer.

He then took his father’s wallet and fled in his car, traveling to Philadelphia, where he caught a bus to Atlantic City.

He was caught by police there on June 23.

Michael Marchalk’s brother Matthew discovered his father’s body the morning of June 19.

At the time of his death, Gary Marchalk was estranged from his wife of 10 years, Schuylkill County Treasurer Linda L. Marchalk.

Marchalk is represented by public defender Kent D. Watkins.

Senior Deputy Attorney General Christopher P. Phillips and Deputy Attorney General Rebecca A. Elo are prosecuting the case because county District Attorney Christine A. Holman is a neighbor and friend of the Marchalk family.