Commonwealth v. Karash

*8OPINION

NIX, Chief Justice.

We are here called upon to address appellant’s contention that a request for removal of a prisoner from a holding facility for the purpose of transporting him to police headquarters for custodial interrogation is a “critical stage” under federal constitutional law1 and should not be permitted without a prior counselled adversarial hearing. Appellant argues that the entitlement to the presence of counsel between his arraignment and preliminary hearing is dictated by fundamental fairness and therefore concludes from that premise that the presence of counsel must be…