Commonwealth v. Howlett

*192Opinion of the Court by

Justice CUNNINGHAM.

The Commonwealth, pursuant to Section 115 of the Constitution of Kentucky and CR 76.37(10), petitions this Court for certification of the law regarding the limitations of judicial notice. Specifically, the Commonwealth seeks certification of the law on the following question:

In light of KRE 201’s pre-Rules case law and its current Federal equivalent, what if any special prohibitions exist in a bench trial against the use of a judge’s taking judicial notice of a fact that comes from the judge’s personal knowledge given KRE 201’s silence on the matter ?

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