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COM. v. KEATON

No. 679 CAP

82 A.3d 419 (2013)

COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Alexander KEATON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 17, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Hugh Gonzales, Esq. , Hunter Stuart Labovitz, Esq. , Defender Association of Philadelphia, for Alexander Keaton.

Hugh J. Burns, Esq. , Philadelphia, William George Young, Esq. , Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, STEVENS, JJ.

OPINION

Justice STEVENS.

In this PCRA capital appeal, Alexander Keaton asserts the PCRA court erroneously denied his underlying claim that his invocation of a Fifth Amendment right to counsel during custodial interrogations on a rape charge invalidated uncounseled, incriminating statements he gave weeks later in unrelated murder and rape cases. Finding evidentiary support for the PCRA court's factual determination that Keaton never invoked his right...

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