Legal Opinion

Brown v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided June 6, 1991No. 90-SC-111-DGPublished

1Opinion of the Court

818 S.W.2d 600 (1991)

Katherine Amy BROWN, Appellant,

v.

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

No. 90-SC-111-DG.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

June 6, 1991.

Rehearing Denied December 19, 1991.

Elizabeth Shaw, Richmond, for appellant.

Frederic J. Cowan, Atty. Gen., Todd Ferguson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Atty. Gen., Crim. Appellate Div., Frankfort, for appellee.

CHARLES J. KAMUF, Special Justice.

The primary question of law raised in this appeal is whether Appellant Katherine Amy Brown's sentence of 10 years on the PFO I conviction is so grossly disproportionate to the crime herein that it is manifestly…

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2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Solem v. HelmSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. Rummel v. EstelleSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
  3. Workman v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976) · 1968
  4. Brown v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1991
  5. Collett v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1984

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