Legal Opinion
Ratliff v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided July 28, 2006No. 2004-SC-0452-MRPublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Justice Cooper
Appellant, Nick Ratliff, was convicted by a Lawrence Circuit Court jury of intentional murder, KRS 507.020(1), for which he was sentenced to fifty years in prison, and seven counts of first-degree criminal abuse, KRS 508.100(l)(e) (torture or cruel punishment), for which he was sentenced to ten years in prison on each count.
On January 27, 2002, Tammy Kirk, Appellant’s domestic companion, presented L.M., her twenty-month-old daughter by another relationship, to Three Rivers Medical Center (“Three Rivers”) in Lawrence County, Kentucky. An x-ray revealed L.M.…
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