Cosby v. Commonwealth

Dissenting opinion by

Justice KELLER.

I respectfully dissent because I do not believe that the phrase “awaiting trial” contained in KRS 533.060(3) can be so broadly construed to apply to offenses committed after Appellant’s trial and guilty pleas.

Although I agree with the majority that it is this Court’s duty when interpreting statutes to give effect to the General Assembly’s intent, I “know of no rule of interpretation that would require us to utterly ignore the plain ... meaning of words in a statute.”1 To the contrary, “[t]he plain meaning of the statutory language is presumed to be what the…