Court Opinion

ID: 9667108
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 01:35:40.233354+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:35.007027
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LAMBERT, Justice,
dissenting.
As Justice Wintersheimer ably demonstrates in his dissenting opinion, the claims of error relied upon by the majority for reversal were not preserved. Moreover, I believe the majority has gone too far in overruling Commonwealth v. Craig, Ky., 783 S.W.2d 387 (1990), a decision with the ink barely dry, and reinstating our earlier decision in Commonwealth v. Rose, Ky., 725 S.W.2d 588 (1987).
In this case, the majority seems to have abandoned settled rules of preservation and gone well beyond the point necessary for decision. Whether one agrees or disagrees, Commonwealth v. Craig was a considered decision of this Court in January of 1990 and it could hardly be said that experience has demonstrated clear error or obsolescence, the grounds typically relied upon for overruling earlier decisions.