Martin v. Commonwealth

OPINION OF THE COURT BY

CHIEF JUSTICE MINTON

A circuit court jury convicted Joseph David Martin of fourteen counts of first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor,1 fourteen counts of incest, and a single count each of use of a minor in a sexual performance, complicity to tampering with a witness, and complicity to. tampering with physical evidence. The jury recommended Martin consecutively serve the statutory maximum for each conviction, totaling 580 years. And the trial court adopted this recommendation in full — ignoring the consecutive-sentence cap in Kentucky Revised Statutes (KRS)…