Haight v. Commonwealth

LAMBERT, Justice.

This appeal is from the final judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court whereby appellant was sentenced to death for having murdered Patricia Vance and David Omer. He was also sentenced to concurrent terms of twenty years imprisonment for two counts of robbery in the first degree and five years imprisonment for possession of a handgun by a convicted felon.

There is no doubt that appellant committed the acts for which he has been held criminally responsible. Rather, upon numerous asserted grounds ranging from deprivation and mistreatment as a child to arbitrary application of the…