Commonwealth v. Keaton

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 eases. Finding evidentiary support for the PCRA court’s factual determination that Keaton never invoked his right to counsel in the initial rape case, we affirm.

*421The underlying facts and procedural history are set forth in our earlier disposition of Keaton’s…