Legal Opinion
Salinas v. Payne
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided August 16, 2005No. 2005-SC-0334-OAPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
Petitioner, Ruben Rios Salinas, petitions this Court for a writ prohibiting the Honorable Gary D. Payne from submitting the death penalty as a possible punishment at his retrial, scheduled to begin August 25, 2005, in the Fayette Circuit Court. For the reasons set forth herein, we deny Salinas’s petition.
In December 1999, Salinas was convicted in the Fayette Circuit Court of capital kidnapping and murder, for which he received sentences of life without the possibility of parole and life imprisonment, respectively. In 2002, Salinas’s convictions were overturned by this Court,…
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