Legal Opinion
Hoskins v. Maricle
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided December 16, 2004No. 2002-SC-0579-MRPublishedCited by 300 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Justice COOPER.
Appellants, Wanda Hoskins and David Paul Smith, petitioned the Court of Appeals for a writ prohibiting Appellee, R. Cletus Maride, judge of the Clay Circuit Court, from ordering a retrial of their indictments for murder and abuse of a corpse and directing him to approve the plea agreements that they negotiated with a special prosecutor. The Court of Appeals denied the writ and they appeal to this Court as a matter of right. Ky. Const. § 115; CR 76.36(7)(a). We affirm.
The indictment charged each Appellant with two counts of murder, a capital offense, KRS…
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