Commonwealth v. Martin

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

Following a jury trial in the Fayette Circuit Court — a retrial of a proceeding that had ended in a mistrial two months earlier — Vittorio Martin was convicted of second-degree burglary. Martin was found to have unlawfully entered, through an attic crawl space, the apartment of his girlfriend’s neighbor, where he proceeded to steal certain household items. In accord with the jury’s recommendation, the trial court sentenced Martin to eight years in prison. It then suspended the imposition of that sentence and placed Martin on probation. Less than seven…