Opinion ID: 2275902
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Heading: Admissibility of Rodgers' Guilty Plea

Text: On June 4, 1998, Cara Rodgers entered a conditional guilty plea to one charge of violating KRS 189A.010, which makes it illegal for persons under the age of twenty-one (21) to operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.02 or more. The trial court found that this guilty plea was an Alford [4] plea that was therefore not admissible under KRE 410(2). The Court of Appeals did not expressly address this issue but, rather, affirmed the trial court's ruling by implication. Upon review of the record and the trial court's thorough findings, we conclude that the trial court's ruling was supported by substantial evidence and was not clearly erroneous. CR 52.01. Therefore, we affirm the Court of Appeals on this issue. Moore v. Asente, Ky., 110 S.W.3d 336, 354 (2003). ([A]ppellate courts should not disturb trial court findings that are supported by substantial evidence.)