Commonwealth v. Gaskins

OPINION

O’BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX and MANDERINO, Justices.

Appellant, Clenzell Gaskins, was convicted by a jury of murder of the first degree for the shooting death of Robert Speakes. After post-trial motions were denied, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. This direct appeal followed.1

While appellant presents several alleged errors for our review, we need only discuss one of them. Gas-kins, a juvenile when he was arrested on this charge, argues that certain inculpatory statements given to the *240police’ should be suppressed because he did not have an opportunity to consult with an interested adult…