Arnett v. Commonwealth

OPINION

LAMBERT, Judge:

Melissa Arnett entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of first-degree sexual abuse for criminal acts committed against one of her students, receiving an agreed sentence of imprisonment for forty months. She now appeals whether the trial court may probate her sentence.

Arnett was a teacher at Bourbon County High School. As a result of sexual contact with A.C., a sixteen-year-old student in Arnett’s class, the Bourbon County Grand Jury indicted Arnett on one count of first-degree sexual abuse. The uniform citation recites the facts of the crime as follows:

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