Legal Opinion

Furnish v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided December 10, 2002No. 1999-SC-0676-MRPublishedCited by 56 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*40Opinion of the Court by

Justice GRAVES.

Appellant, Fred Furnish, was convicted in the Kenton Circuit Court of murder and was sentenced to death. In addition, Appellant received enhanced sentences of thirty years for first-degree burglary, life imprisonment for first-degree robbery, ten years for theft by unlawful taking over $300, and ten years for obtaining money by fraud, by virtue of his being found to be a first-degree persistent felony offender. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right.

On the afternoon of Thursday June 25, 1998, 66-year-old Jean Williamson was discovered dead in her…

2Cases cited32 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Ake v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  4. Harold McQueen Jr. v. Gene Scroggy, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1996
  5. Tamme v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1998

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3Cited by56 opinions

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  5. St. Clair v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2004

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