Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Oliver
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided May 22, 2008No. 2006-SC-000385-DGPublished
1Opinion of the Court
253 S.W.3d 520 (2008)
COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellant
v.
Stewart OLIVER, Appellee.
No. 2006-SC-000385-DG.
Supreme Court of Kentucky.
May 22, 2008.
Jack Conway, Attorney General, William Robert Long, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Appellate Division, Frankfort, KY, Counsel for Appellant.
Samuel N. Potter, Assistant Public Advocate, Department of Public Advocacy, Frankfort, KY, Counsel for Appellee.
Opinion of the Court by Justice ABRAMSON.
This Court has never expressly addressed whether a criminal defendant is entitled to have the jury instructed on a lesser-included misdemeanor offense…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Doggett v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Beck v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Spaziano v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Clark v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2007
- State v. DelisleSupreme Court of Vermont · 1994
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