Cantrell v. Commonwealth

*389After an earlier trial had ended in a hung jury, William Jeifery Cantrell was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife, Judy, and of the use of a firearm in the commission of the murder. The second jury fixed punishment at life imprisonment for murder, plus one year on the firearm charge. We granted him an appeal limited to three issues: whether his due process rights were infringed when private counsel, employed by the victim’s family, played the dominant role in the prosecution; whether the court erred in excluding expert medical opinion testimony proffered in support of the defense…