Legal Opinion
Holt v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided April 19, 2007No. 2005-SC-000128-MRPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAMBERT, Chief Justice.
The Kentucky Rules of Professional Conduct, SCR 3.130, et seq., are mandatory for all Kentucky lawyers. SCR 3.130-3.4(e) provides that a lawyer shall not “assert personal knowledge of facts in issue except when testifying as a witness, or state a personal opinion as to the justness of a cause, the credibility of a witness, the culpability of a civil litigant, or the guilt or innocence of an accused.” SCR 3.130-3.7 generally prohibits a lawyer *733from acting as an advocate at trial where the lawyer is likely to be a necessary witness. The case at bar touches upon the…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Berger v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Fahy v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- United States v. BlockCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1937
- Warfield Milo Goings v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by22 opinions
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