Young v. Commonwealth

COOPER, Justice.

Appellant was convicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court of three counts of criminal attempt to commit unlawful transaction with a minor in the first degree and of being a persistent felony offender in the first degree. He received three enhanced sentences of twenty years each, which were ordered to be served consecutively for a total of sixty years. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right. Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b).

The underlying offenses occurred in April 1996, at which time the three male victims were all less than twelve years of age. P.C., age eleven, testified that he…