Winstead v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

Jerry Winstead appeals from a May 21, 2007 Judgment of the Daviess Circuit Court convicting him of murder and of first-degree robbery and sentencing him to concurrent prison terms, respectively, of life without the benefit of parole and of twenty years. The Commonwealth alleged, and at his March 2007 trial the jury found, that on January 22, 2005, Winstead shot and killed Richard Roberts in the course of stealing a substantial amount of cash from a small safe in Roberts’s bedroom. On appeal Winstead contends (1) that he was denied his right to represent…