Legal Opinion
Moore v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided November 19, 1998No. 97-SC-79-MRPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STUMBO, Justice.
Appellant, Brian Keith Moore, appeals the denial of his RCr 11.42 and CR 60.02 motions to vacate his convictions and sentence of death for murder, kidnapping, and robbery.
Appellant has twice been convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, kidnapping, and robbery of Virgil Harris, a seventy-seven-year-old man, in 1979. This Court reversed Moore’s first conviction and remanded for a new trial. Moore v. Commonwealth, Ky., 634 S.W.2d 426 (1982). Moore was retried in October 1984, and was again convicted and sentenced to death. This Court affirmed that conviction and sentence…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Smith v. MurraySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
- Harold McQueen Jr. v. Gene Scroggy, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1996
- Moore v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1988
- Moore v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1982
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Hoskins v. MaricleKentucky Supreme Court · 2004
- Brian Keith Moore v. Philip Parker, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2005
- Rigdon v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 2004
- Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Brian Keith MooreKentucky Supreme Court · 2011
- Commonwealth v. TammeKentucky Supreme Court · 2002
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