Legal Opinion

Pruitt v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided November 21, 1985Published

1Opinion of the Court

VANCE, Justice.

The appeal is from a judgment sentencing appellant to a term of imprisonment for complicity to commit murder in which probation was denied because the offense included the use of a weapon proscribed by K.R.S. 533.060(1).

No argument is made that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict. Instead, appellant contends that certain inconsistent and incriminating statements which she made to officers investigating the murder, which statements were admitted in evidence against her, were involuntarily obtained in violation of her Fifth Amendment rights and should have been…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Haymon v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1983
  2. Commonwealth v. ReedCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1984

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