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Woodall v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 2002No. 1998-SC-0755-MRPublishedCited by 73 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

Robert Keith Woodall appeals from a sentence of death for murder and life imprisonment for the rape and kidnapping of Sarah Hansen. Woodall entered a plea of guilty to capital murder, capital kidnapping, and first-degree rape. A jury sentencing trial was conducted July 14 through July 20, 1998. The prosecution called eleven witnesses, and the defense presented fourteen witnesses in mitigation of the crimes. Woodall did not testify at the penalty proceedings. The jury fixed a sentence of death for the capital murder and a sentence of two concurrent life terms for the…

2Cases cited64 opinions

  1. Batson v. KentuckySupreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Boykin v. AlabamaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  3. Brady v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  4. Wainwright v. WittSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  5. Payne v. TennesseeSupreme Court of the United States · 1991

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3Cited by73 opinions

  1. White v. WoodallSupreme Court of the United States · 2014
  2. Brown v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2010
  3. Winstead v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2009
  4. Ralph Stephens Baze, Jr. v. Philip Parker, Warden, Kentucky State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2004
  5. Adkins v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2003

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