John Fairley III v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

JUSTICE HUGHES

John Fairley III appeals as a matter of right from a judgment of the Christian Circuit Court sentencing him to twenty years’ imprisonment for first-degree robbery, receiving stolen property (firearm), first-degree possession of a controlled substance (while armed), and possession of marijuana (while armed). Fairley alleges that the trial court erred by permitting the victim to make an in-court identification and by refusing to give an instruction for the lesser-included offense of facilitation to first-degree robbery. Fairley also raises two unpreserved…