Jackson v. Commonwealth

Opinion

WILLIS, J.

Tyrone Lamont Jackson, on his conditional guilty plea, was found guilty of first degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of murder and was sentenced to serve fifty-two years in the state penitentiary. On appeal, he contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress a confession given by him while a prisoner in New York. He argues (1) that his waiver of his Miranda rights was invalid because it was given in the absence of his New York attorney, and (2) that in determining the validity of that waiver, the trial court should have applied New York…