Gordon v. Commonwealth

OPINION

VANMETER, Judge.

Jeff Lynn Gordon appeals from the Ed-monson Circuit Court’s judgment sentencing him to ten years’ imprisonment after a jury found him guilty of first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse. Gordon argues that the trial court erred by failing to direct a verdict in his favor on the sodomy count and, alternatively, by failing to instruct the jury as to second-degree sodomy. He also argues that the Commonwealth’s Attorney committed palpable error 2 by attempting to define “reasonable doubt” during voir dire and by commenting on Gordon’s prearrest right to silence. For…