Ronald Lynn Craft v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

CHIEF JUSTICE MINTON

A circuit court jury convicted Ronald Lynn Craft on one count of intentional murder and one count of being a first-degree persistent felony offender (PFO). The jury fixed punishment at twenty years’ imprisonment, and the trial court entered judgment accordingly. Craft now appeals that judgment to this Court as a matter of right 1 , raising two issues for our review:- (1) that Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS) 29A.020(2)(b) unconstitutionally delegates to the judiciary the power to establish the number of peremptory challenges awarded to the…