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Garland v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided March 18, 2004No. 1999-SC-0259-MRPublishedCited by 19 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice LAMBERT.

Appellant, John Roscoe Garland, was convicted by a McCreary Circuit Court jury of three counts of murder and sentenced to death for each count. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right pursuant to Section 110(2)(b) of the Constitution of Kentucky.

On the night of Saturday, March 9,1997, 26-year-old Jean Ferrier, 22-year-old Crystal ConaSter, and 16-year-old April Sexton left McCreary County and went to a country music dance hall in Somerset as they did almost every Friday and Saturday night. Jean had been in a relationship with the then…

2Cases cited58 opinions

  1. Lockhart v. McCreeSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Gray v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  3. Buchanan v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  4. Sanborn v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1988
  5. Tamme v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1998

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Ralph Stephens Baze, Jr. v. Philip Parker, Warden, Kentucky State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2004
  2. People v. HintonCalifornia Supreme Court · 2006
  3. St. Clair v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2004
  4. Lanham v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2005
  5. Jason Dickerson v. Commonwealth of KentuckyKentucky Supreme Court · 2016

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