Johnson v. Commonwealth

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana, The Life of Reason or The Phase of Human Progress 284 (2d ed.1924).

[A]ll counsel shall refrain from any expression of the meaning or definition of the phrase “reasonable doubt.”

Commonwealth v. Callahan, 675 S.W.2d 391, 393 (Ky.1984). Unfortunately, those who have joined the majority opinion in this case either have forgotten or choose not to remember what led this Court to that ruling. As noted in Callahan, id. at 392, that case was simply “part of the progeny spawned, by Taylor v. Kentucky, 436 U.S. 478, 98…