Putty v. Commonwealth

COOPER, Justice.

Appellant Bernard Keith Putty was convicted in the Hopkins Circuit Court of four counts of criminal solicitation of the murder of his father-in-law, Gary Clark, and was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a total of thirty years. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right. Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b). At trial, the Commonwealth introduced evidence, largely obtained from Appellant, himself, that Appellant and Clark were part of a criminal syndicate and that Appellant’s motive for soliciting Clark’s murder was that Clark had either threatened or agreed to inform law…