Court Opinion

ID: 9778206
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:55:35.003916+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:04.823642
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STEPHENS, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I concur with the opinion of the Court except for that portion which suggests the possibility of overruling our decisions in Sherley v. Commonwealth, Ky., 558 S.W.2d 615 (1977), and Gunter v. Commonwealth, Ky., 576 S.W.2d 518 (1978). These cases hold that issues of double jeopardy may be reviewed on appeal even though insufficiently raised or preserved in the trial court. In my opinion, a right so fundamental as the prohibition against double jeopardy should be reviewable without regard to preservation or waiver by procedural default.
STUMBO, J., joins this concurring opinion.