Legal Opinion

Dunn v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided February 23, 2012No. 2010-SC-000234-MRPublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion of the Court by

Justice NOBLE.

Appellant Michael Dunn was convicted in Montgomery Circuit Court of five counts of first-degree sodomy. He was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for each count, to run consecutively for a total of fifty years. Appellant now challenges his convictions before this Court as a matter of right. Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b). This Court affirms.

I. BACKGROUND

This case arose when L.M., a fourteen-year-old boy, reported that Appellant had forced him to have anal and oral sex at least seven times. L.M. is the nephew of Appellant’s live-in girlfriend Delaine. 1 L.M.…

2Cases cited41 opinions

  1. United States v. BagleySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  2. Kyles v. WhitleySupreme Court of the United States · 1995
  3. Strickler v. GreeneSupreme Court of the United States · 1999
  4. Sheppard v. MaxwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  5. Oliver v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1984

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Parker v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2014
  2. Little v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2013
  3. Buster v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2012
  4. State of Maine v. Gregory S. OlahSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2018
  5. Michael A. Dunn v. Hon Beth Maze Judge, Montgomery Circuit CourtKentucky Supreme Court · 2016

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