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Davis v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided June 18, 1998No. 95-SC-787-MR, 96-SC-123-TGPublishedCited by 42 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COOPER, Justice.

Appellants Sherman Dejuan Davis and Melissa Felts were jointly tried in the Jefferson Circuit Court for offenses alleged to have been perpetrated against Felts’s two-year-old daughter, Sabrina Felts, who died on the night of May 20-21, 1994. Davis was convicted of wanton murder and first-degree criminal abuse and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for one hundred (100) years for murder and ten (10) years for criminal abuse. The sentences were ordered to be served consecutively for a total of one hundred and ten (110) years. Felts was convicted of first-degree…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Bruton v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Donnelly v. DeChristoforoSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  3. Commonwealth v. BenhamKentucky Supreme Court · 1991
  4. Miller v. PateSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  5. Nelson v. O'NEILSupreme Court of the United States · 1971

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3Cited by42 opinions

  1. Stopher v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2001
  2. Adkins v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2003
  3. Johnson v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2003
  4. Young v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2001
  5. Ratliff v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2006

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