Clifford v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the court by Justice COOPER.

Following a jury trial in the Campbell Circuit Court, Appellant was convicted of one count of trafficking in a controlled substance in the first-degree. He then entered a guilty plea to being a persistent felony offender in the first-degree and waived jury sentencing. He was sentenced to ten years in prison for the trafficking conviction, which was enhanced to twenty years for the PFO conviction. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right. Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b).

I. FACTS.

Detective William Birkenhauer of the Northern Kentucky Drug Strike Force had an…