Melinda Turner v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

RENDERED: APRIL 26, 2018 TO BE PUBLISHED 2016-SC-000367-MR MELINDA TURNER APPELLANT ON APPEAL FROM SCOTI CIRCUIT COURT v. HONORABLE PAUL F. ISAACS, JUDGE NO. 10-CR-00255 COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY APPELLEE OPINION OF THE COURT BY JUSTICE HUGHES AFFIRMING Melinda Turner was convicted of the stabbing death of her boyfriend, Maxwell Pomeroy, Jr. She appeals as a matter of right from a judgment of the Scott Circuit Court sentencing her to thirty years' impri~onment for murder and for being a first-degree persistent felony offender. Turner alleges that the trial court erred by: 1) permitting the…