Court Opinion

ID: 9705563
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 01:11:30.403773+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:12.294389
License: Public Domain

KELLER, Justice,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
In 2002-SC-0410-MR, Appellant’s matter-of-right appeal from the Laurel Circuit Court’s judgment of conviction and sentence, I concur in result only as to Parts IV, which address Appellant’s allegations of error that are relevant to his underlying convictions, but dissent as to Part VI because I agree entirely with the portion of Justice Stumbo’s dissenting opinion that observes how Appellant was prejudiced by the Commonwealth’s improper remarks during its KRS 532.055 Truth-in-Sentencing phase closing argument. In other words, I vote to: (1) affirm the judgment to the extent that it reflects Appellant’s Murder and felony TBUT convictions, but (2) reverse the aggregate life sentence and remand the case to the trial court for a new sentencing hearing. In 2003-SC-0155-TG, Appellant’s appeal from the trial court’s order denying his motion for a new trial, I agree with the analysis contained in Part VII of the majority opinion, and I concur fully in the majority’s disposition of that appeal.
LAMBERT, C.J., joins this opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.