Chico Duwan Rucker v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
Kentucky Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
*566OPINION OF THE COURT BY
JUSTICE HUGHES
Appellant, Chico Duwan Rucker, appeals as a matter of right from a judgment of the Fayette Circuit Court sentencing him to twenty years’ imprisonment for second-degree manslaughter, tampering with physical evidence, and fraudulent use of a credit card over $500. Rucker alleges the trial court erred in four ways: 1) by permitting the introduction of sexually explicit communications he made after the victim’s death; 2) by authorizing the admission of sexually explicit communications he made before the victim’s death; 3) by allowing the Commonwealth to…
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