Jackson v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

This case comes to the Supreme Court as a matter-of-right appeal brought by Appellant Mitchell Jackson from an order of the Jefferson Circuit Court revoking his probation and ordering him to serve a twenty-year sentence derived from two separate judgments of conviction. Jack son raises three claims of error concerning his revocation proceeding but the threshold issue before us is whether his appeal is properly before the Supreme Court of Kentucky or whether it should have been brought in the Court of Appeals. The Commonwealth has filed a motion to…