Legal Opinion

Dyer v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided September 26, 1991No. 90-SC-248-MRPublishedCited by 47 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LEIBSON, Justice.

The appellant was indicted and convicted of Sodomy in the First Degree committed on a boy under 12 years of age. He was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary, and he appeals as a matter of right, claiming three errors:

1) The evidence was insufficient;

2) Error in admitting an exhibit, consisting of miscellaneous pictures, reading materials and personal memorabilia, seized from an apartment the appellant shared with a female companion, which lacked relevancy other than to bolster the prosecution’s unsubstantiated claim that he fit the profile of a “pedophile”; and

3)…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Frye v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1923
  3. Commonwealth v. SawhillKentucky Supreme Court · 1983
  4. Lantrip v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1986
  5. Kimbrough v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1977

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3Cited by47 opinions

  1. Springer v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1999
  2. Meece v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2011
  3. Garrett v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2001
  4. Baker v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 1998
  5. Hayes v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2005

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