Cardine v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice GRAVES.

In 1980, Appellant, Jeffery Cardine, was convicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court of three counts of first-degree robbery and was sentenced to a total of forty years imprisonment, to run consecutive to a previous twelve-year sentence. This Court affirmed the convictions in Cardine v. Commonwealth, Ky., 623 S.W.2d 895 (1981). Appellant has filed a number of post-conviction motions, including two motions pursuant to RCr 11.42, all of which were denied by the trial court.

On September 18, 2000, Appellant filed a third RCr 11.42 motion and a CR 60.02 motion,…