Legal Opinion
Matthews v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Decided October 14, 2011No. 2010-CA-001157-MRPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LAMBERT, Judge:
Boyd Daniel Matthews appeals from the final judgment of the McCracken Circuit Court convicting him of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance (cocaine) and for being a first-degree persistent felony offender. ■ As a result of these convictions, Matthews received an enhanced sentence of seventeen years’ imprisonment. After careful review, we affirm the conviction.
On June 11, 2009, Detective Matt Went-worth of the Paducah Police Department’s drug unit set up an undercover buy through a confidential informant (Cl).1 Detective Wentworth gave the Cl cash to…
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