Court Opinion

ID: 9648657
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:31:38.546005+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:45.648107
License: Public Domain

LEIBSON, Justice,
concurring in part/dissenting in part.
I concur in the Majority Opinion on the guilt phase of this case.
Respectfully, I dissent as to the penalty phase because the Court has approved consecutive sentencing where the jury decided concurrent sentences were appropriate. Thus the sentence provided by the jury has been effectively doubled from 20 to 40 years. My reasons for dissenting are the same as stated in my Dissenting Opinion in Dotson v. Commonwealth, Ky., 740 S.W.2d 930, 932-34 (1987).