Bartley v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice NOBLE.

Appellant, Pamela Bartley, was convicted in Rowan Circuit Court of second-degree manslaughter for killing her husband, *3Carl Bartley, and was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment. The Court of Appeals affirmed her conviction and sentence, holding that the trial court had not* erred by admitting into evidence a recorded conversation between Appellant and a- police detective in which Appellant repeatedly was silent in the face of accusatory questions, and that other errors in the case did not require reversal.

On discretionary review, the primary issue…