Hampton v. Commonwealth

GRAVES, Justice.

Appellant, Karen Hampton, was convicted in the Laurel Circuit Court of the 1998 murder of her husband, Wade Hampton, as well as tampering with physical evidence. She was sentenced to fifty years imprisonment on the murder charge and five years on the tampering charge, to run consecutively for a total of fifty-five years imprisonment. She appeals to this Court as a matter of right.

Wade Hampton was sleeping on the morning of August 13, 1998, when Appellant and the couple’s two children left the house around 7:30 a.m. According to Appellant, she took the children to school and…