Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Abnee
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided August 23, 2012No. 2011-SC-000507-DGPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion. of the Court by
Justice VENTERS.
Several weeks after Appellee Joshua R. Abnee was convicted of first-degree sodomy he moved for a new trial based upon an unsworn, unauthenticated note purportedly written by a member of the jury panel that convicted him. The note stated that the jury had been influenced by information not presented in evidence and that the writer had been pressured into voting to convict. The trial court denied the motion for a new trial. The Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the case for a hearing to ascertain the validity of the claim, and if true, whether the…
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