Brock v. Sowders

LUKOWSKY, Justice.

The Lyon Circuit court denied Brock’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The Court of Appeals affirmed. We reverse and . remand because Brock may be detained in the Kentucky Penitentiary without legal authority. KRS 419.020.

This reversal is based on the affirmative resolution of two questions. The first is whether a Kentucky judgment directing that Kentucky sentences be served concurrently with another state’s sentence, absent explicit statutory authority but resulting from a plea bargaining agreement, must be honored by the Kentucky Bureau of Corrections. The second is…