Young v. Commonwealth

COOPER, Justice.

On June 13, 1997, Osama Shalash was fatally shot in the Lexington Mall parking lot in front of Perkins’ Restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky. Appellants Gerald Young, Erskin Thomas and Darrell Morb-ley were jointly indicted for his murder. At trial, the Commonwealth proved that Shalash and Young were cocaine traffickers and that Young regularly purchased large quantities of cocaine from Shalash for resale to lesser dealers. There was evidence that Young intended to purchase $50,000.00 worth of cocaine from Shalash, but that Shalash only had $25,000.00 worth of cocaine to sell.…