Donald Howard v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

CHIEF JUSTICE MINTON

Donald Howard entered an open guilty plea to five counts of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance, second offense. He was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment with a $1,000 fine on each count with.two counts running consecutively for a maximum twenty-year total sentence.

He now appeals that judgment as a matter of right 1 , contending that the trial court’s imposition of the statutory maximum sentence was unconstitutional and that the court erred by imposing a partial fee to the public defender and court costs. We hold that the. trial…