Legal Opinion

Ice v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided February 16, 1984PublishedCited by 161 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

On December 5, 1978, in a rural section of Powell County, a little girl named Donna Knox, age 7, was the victim of a particularly vicious and gruesome murder. Todd Ice, age 15, is charged as her murderer. The evidence portrays him as Jekyll and Hyde, an exemplary student and a fiendish killer.

Donna lived with her mother and father in a trailer. Todd Ice and his family were their nearest neighbors. The two families lived on opposite sides of a service road leading off of Ky. 15 at a point about six miles from Stanton and fifteen miles from *673Campton. They had been neighbors…

2Cases cited41 opinions

  1. Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
  2. Witherspoon v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Eddings v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  4. Leland v. OregonSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
  5. Davis v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1895

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3Cited by161 opinions

  1. Sawyer v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  2. Sanborn v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1988
  3. Mills v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1999
  4. McClellan v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1986
  5. Stopher v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2001

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