Legal Opinion
Sanborn v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided March 23, 1995No. 91-SC-501-MRPublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPAIN, Justice.
This is an automatic appeal of a death sentence imposed upon the appellant, Parra-more Lee Sanborn, on May 14, 1991, by the Jefferson Circuit Court following his conviction by a jury on a retrial for the intentional murder of Mrs. Barbara Heilman. He was also found guilty of the first-degree kidnapping, first-degree rape, and first-degree sodomy of the victim for each of which his punishment was set at imprisonment for ninety-five years, all to run consecutively for a total of 285 years.
During the first trial, which was held in the Henry Circuit Court and extended from January…
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