Barker v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

CHIEF JUSTICE MINTON

On retrial following this Court’s reversal of his original second-degree manslaughter conviction,1 a circuit court jury again convicted Adam Anthony Barker of second-degree manslaughter. Barker was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for this conviction, which the trial court ordered to be served consecutive to the sentences imposed for tampering with physical evidence left intact from the original trial. The resulting judgment imposed a total effective sentence for Barker of twenty years’ imprisonment.

Bringing this appeal as a matter of right,2…