Clay v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice NOBLE.

Appellant Ondrá Leon Clay was convicted of wanton murder and first-degree sodomy, and was sentenced to life without parole for twenty-five years on the murder and twenty years on the sodomy, to run concurrently. On appeal, Appellant raises a Batson challenge, a failure to grant a defense motion to strike a juror for cause, a failure to properly qualify expert testimony, and an invalid use of judicial notice. Because these issues were either not objected to or were improperly objected to and do not rise to the level of palpable error or are without merit,…