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Baze v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided November 20, 1997No. 94-SC-127-MR, 94-SC-627-MRPublishedCited by 71 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

Ralph Baze appeals from a judgment based on a jury verdict which convicted him of the double murder of two police officers, Sheriff Steve Bennett and Deputy Sheriff Arthur Briscoe. He was sentenced to death for the murders.

Baze shot each of the officers three times in the back with an SKS assault rifle at a time when the officers were attempting to serve five felony fugitive warrants from Ohio on him. Sheriff Bennett was killed first when Baze shot him three times in the back from the cover of a large stump and brush pile near his secluded cabin. Baze then turned his…

2Cases cited42 opinions

  1. Crane v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Simmons v. South CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  3. Sanborn v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1988
  4. Gall v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1980
  5. Ice v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1984

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3Cited by71 opinions

  1. Baze v. ReesSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
  2. People v. HallIllinois Supreme Court · 2000
  3. Ralph Stephens Baze, Jr. v. Philip Parker, Warden, Kentucky State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2004
  4. Stopher v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2001
  5. Harp v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2008

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