State v. Welch

DAVIS, Justice:

This is a criminal appeal by David L. Welch, defendant below and petitioner herein (hereinafter “Mr. Welch”), from an order of the Circuit Court of Fayette County, sentencing him to life imprisonment without parole for first degree murder; ten to twenty-*649five years imprisonment on each of nine counts of sexual assault in the second degree and one to five years imprisonment on each of three counts of sexual abuse in the first degree.1 In this appeal, Mr. Welch assigned the following as error: (1) the trial judge committed error in rejecting a purported plea agreement; (2) the…