Commonwealth of Kentucky v. David McKee

OPINION OF THE (jOURT BY

JUSTICE NOBLE

David McKee was convicted of wanton murder and fourth-degree assault after a significant car wreck in which he was highly intoxicated and was alleged to- have crossed the center line, resulting iñ a head-on collision.. The Court of Appeals reversed the convictions after concluding that his trial counsel had been ineffective in failing to conduct an independent investigation that “may’.’ have turned up a diagram of the accident, scene that, in turn, “may” have helped an accident reconstruc-tionist show that McKee was not at fault. Also, the attorney was…