Jay Boyer, Jr. v. Superintendent Houtzdale SCI

OPINION *

CHAGARES, Circuit Judge.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania appeals the District Court’s grant of Jay Boyer, Jr.’s habeas petition on the ground that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to argue for suppression of Boyer’s confession because his interrogation violated the requirements of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), and its progeny. For the reasons that follow, we will affirm.

I

Boyer was arrested in December of 2001 in connection with an October 2001 home-invasion robbery in Northumberland County during which three perpetrators— one…