Gray v. Commonwealth

OPINION

LAMBERT, Chief Justice.

Appellant, James Marcellus Gray, was convicted in Christian Circuit Court of three counts of first-degree trafficking in a Schedule II controlled substance (cocaine), second offense, and of being a persistent felony offender in the second degree. The jury recommended a sentence of twenty years imprisonment on each of the three trafficking charges and seventy years on the PFO II conviction. The court imposed a final judgment sentencing appellant to seventy years. Appellant now appeals to this Court as a matter of right. Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b).

On August 1 and 23,…