Court Opinion

ID: 9767176
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:12:02.611333+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:29.261689
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LEIBSON, Justice,
concurring.
In Garner v. Commonwealth, Ky., 645 S.W.2d 705 (1983), discussing the extent to which records of the Bureau of Corrections may be used to prove fact in issue in Persistent Felony Offender proceedings, we hold that “we would restrict this evidence to proof of age and parole status alone.”
In my view, nothing in the language of the present opinion should be interpreted as weakening our position in Garner.
Evidence from the records of the Department of Probation and Parole is not admissible to prove either the date of previous offenses, or the fact of previous offenses. Such evidence fails to qualify under the regular business entries’ exception to the hearsay rule. In this respect the Department’s records are not records of routine facts occurring at or near the time of the phenomena which are being recorded. Buckler v. Commonwealth, Ky., 541 S.W.2d 935 (1976) is not applicable.