Legal Opinion

Copley v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided March 22, 2012No. 2011-SC-000063-MRPublished

1Opinion of the Court

361 S.W.3d 902 (2012)

Ronald COPLEY, Appellant,

v.

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

No. 2011-SC-000063-MR.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

March 22, 2012.

Jeffrey Hall Hoover, Hoover Law Office, Jamestown, KY, for appellant.

Jack Conway, Attorney General of Kentucky, Susan Roncarti Lenz, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Attorney General, Criminal Appellate Division, Frankfort, KY, for appellee.

Opinion of the Court by Justice ABRAMSON.

Appellant Ronald Copley was sentenced to twenty years in prison after pleading guilty to murdering his wife. Copley appeals as a matter of right, alleging the trial…

Also in this document: Concurrence.

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. United States v. Jerry Wayne SearpCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1978
  2. Meece v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2011
  3. Brock v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1997
  4. United States v. Harold Loyd VasserCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
  5. Copley v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2012

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