Northington v. Commonwealth

OPINION

JONES, JUDGE:

This matter is before us following Appellant William Northington’s conditional guilty plea entered in Jefferson Circuit Court. As part of his plea, Northington reserved the right to appeal the circuit court’s denials of his pretrial suppression motions. For the reasons more fully explained below, we AFFIRM IN PART, VACATE IN PART and REMAND for an evidentiary hearing complete with findings of fact with regard to victim Joshua Melton’s identifications of Northington.

I. Background

On April 17, 2010, Joshua Melton, an auto mechanic, was beaten in the head with a tire iron…