Brown v. Commonwealth

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment based on a jury verdict which convicted Brown of kidnapping and robbery. He was sentenced to life without parole for 25 years for kidnapping and sentenced to 13 years for robbery. The sentences were ordered to run consecutively.

Brown presents six issues on appeal: 1) the Commonwealth lacked jurisdiction to try Brown for capital kidnapping because death occurred in West Virginia and not Kentucky; 2) the jury was improperly selected because potential jurors who could not or would not impose a death penalty were excluded; 3) the capital…