Lawless v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

Kristy Lawless appeals from a December 16, 2008 Judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court convicting her, in accord with the jury’s verdict, of robbery in the first degree, in violation of KRS 515.020. Pursuant to Lawless’s plea acknowledging her status as a first-degree persistent felon, the court sentenced Lawless to twenty-years imprisonment. Lawless was accused and found guilty of robbing a National City Bank at 4th and Oak Streets in Louisville. She complains on appeal that the instructions given the jury were flawed in several ways: (1) that they…