Commonwealth v. Prather

GANT, Justice.

On January 11, 1983, in Louisville, Kentucky, a paid police informant contacted a member of the Louisville Police Department and advised an officer that he had been approached by Robert Andrew Prather and solicited to assist Prather in an armed robbery at the Executive Inn in Owensboro, Kentucky. Respondent Prather had obtained information concerning the hotel and certain plans thereof from his uncle, a former security guard at the facility. In essence, the plan called for the informant to drive, for Prather to enter the van on its way to the bank with a deposit, to force the…