Legal Opinion

Adkins v. Commonwealth

Kentucky Supreme Court

Decided January 23, 2003No. 2001-SC-0086-MRPublishedCited by 133 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COOPER, Justice.

Appellant Kalton Adkins was convicted by a Pike Circuit Court jury of murder, first-degree robbery, and first-degree burglary, and was sentenced to a total of seventy years in prison. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right, Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b), contending that the trial court erred by (1) overruling his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal; (2) failing to suppress evidence obtained as a result of an investigatory stop and frisk; (3) permitting a witness to testify for the Commonwealth knowing that she would invoke her Fifth Amendment privilege against…

2Cases cited73 opinions

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  2. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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  4. Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives' Assn.Supreme Court of the United States · 1989
  5. Minnesota v. DickersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993

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3Cited by133 opinions

  1. Soto v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2004
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  4. Ratliff v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2006
  5. Caudill v. CommonwealthKentucky Supreme Court · 2003

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