Parks v. Commonwealth

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment based on a conditional guilty plea which convicted Parks of murder, first-degree robbery and being a first-degree persistent felony offender. He was sentenced to a total of twenty years in prison.

The sole question presented is whether the trial judge properly denied the motion to dismiss the indictment following the failure of the Commonwealth to bring Parks to trial within 120 days of his return to Kentucky under KRS 440.450, the Interstate Agreement on Detainers.

On April 10, 1999, Parks murdered the victim by stabbing her with a knife…