Commonwealth v. Hubbard

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment based on a jury verdict convicting Hubbard of reckless homicide. He was sentenced by the circuit judge to three years in prison when the jury failed to agree on a sentence.

The precise questions presented are whether the employment of private counsel to assist the Commonwealth Attorney in the prosecution of a criminal case violates the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and whether K.R.S. 532.055(4) violates the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States…