Court Opinion

ID: 9765495
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:03:57.99141+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:10.467007
License: Public Domain

VANCE, Justice,
concurring.
I concur with the result of this case, but it should be noted that today we have released our decision in Young v. J.B. Hunt Transportation, Inc., Ky., 781 S.W.2d 503 (1989) in which we reached exactly the opposite result. The only apparent distinction is that Young is a civil case, and this is a criminal case.
In my opinion, in both civil and criminal cases the jury’s fact finding responsibility is the same. The facts should be determined from the evidence, and the law should be applied to the facts as they are found to be. In neither case should the fact finding be result-oriented; that is the jury should not first determine what result it would like and then find the facts so as to reach that result.
It seems to me that the issue is one of principle and that the principle is the same in both cases. If we are going to deny a *513right to attorneys to comment to a jury about the consequences of its verdict here, we should likewise deny it in Young v. J.B. Hunt Transportation, Inc., supra.