Commonwealth v. Pollini

Opinion of the Court by

Justice SCOTT.

A Jefferson Circuit jury found Appellee, Jasper Pollini, guilty of complicity to murder, complicity to first-degree burglary, complicity to second-degree burglary, and complicity to receiving stolen property over $800. After Appellee’s sentence of life imprisonment was affirmed by this Court, he filed an RCr 11.42 motion in the *147trial court alleging, among other things, that appellate counsel had rendered ineffective assistance by failing to brief the issue of the trial judge’s ex parte written communication with the jury after it had retired for…