Dean v. Commonwealth

SPAIN, Justice.

The appellant, Glen F. Dean, Jr., was convicted by a jury in the Christian Circuit Court of two counts of first-degree rape, three counts of first-degree sodomy, one count of complicity to first-degree rape, and two counts of complicity to first-degree sodomy. He appeals as a matter of right his sentence to imprisonment for ninety years.

The evidence at trial established that on December 17,1989, the sixteen-year-old victim was abducted by Dean and his co-defendant, Steven Allen Wallace, from a shopping mall parking lot in Hopkinsville. Wallace forced the young lady at…