Legal Opinion

Wyatt v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided April 19, 2007No. 2005-SC-000184-MRPublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice LAMBERT.

Upon a jury verdict, Appellant, Annie Wyatt, was convicted of two counts of criminal solicitation to commit murder, 1 and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment on each count to run consecutively for a total of thirty years. She appeals to this Court as a matter of right, claiming that she was erroneously denied an in struction on the defense of entrapment; that she was prejudiced by a key witness being allowed to testify to the legal elements of criminal solicitation; that her convictions violate principles of double jeopardy; and that the…

2Cases cited34 opinions

  1. Blockburger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
  2. United States v. DixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  3. Sorrells v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1932
  4. Grady v. CorbinSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
  5. Ohio v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. State v. JensenWashington Supreme Court · 2008
  2. State v. JensenWashington Supreme Court · 2008
  3. Saxton v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2010
  4. Morrow v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2009
  5. State v. LingmannCourt of Appeals of Utah · 2014

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