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Sommers v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided September 24, 1992No. 89-SC-882-MRPublishedCited by 28 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COMBS, Justice.

David Louis Sommers was convicted in McCracken Circuit Court of two counts of murder, and sentenced to two consecutive 500-year terms of imprisonment. He appeals as a matter of right.

The victims were sisters, 13-year-old Carrie and 12-year-old Stephanie VanMe-ter. In the summer of 1988, the girls’ parents apparently abandoned them in the care of their neighbors, David and Elizabeth (Sherry) Sommers. In September 1988, the girls’ mother petitioned the district court to appoint the Sommerses as her daughters’ guardians. Sommers failed to appear at the guardianship hearing, and…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  2. Commonwealth v. ReneerKentucky Supreme Court · 1987
  3. Simmons v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1988
  4. Smith v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1987
  5. Commonwealth v. RichardsonKentucky Supreme Court · 1984

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3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Perdue v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1996
  2. Woodall v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2002
  3. Dillingham v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1999
  4. St. Clair v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2014
  5. State v. WoodNebraska Supreme Court · 2021

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