Rose v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice SCOTT.

On May 17, 2005, the Estill Circuit Court entered an order suppressing the fruits of a vehicle search conducted incident to the arrest of Heather Rose, Appellant. The evidence directly implicated Appellant in four counts of Possession of Stolen Mail Matter and three counts of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the second degree. On direct appeal to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the Commonwealth successfully argued that the trial court’s order ran awry of established Fourth Amendment precedent of the United States Supreme Court. The Court of…