Brown v. Commonwealth

LAMBERT, Justice.

Appellant, John Earl Brown, was convicted in the Jefferson Circuit Court of three counts of kidnapping and of one count of robbery in the second degree, with enhancement as a persistent felony offender in the second degree. Appellant was sentenced to a total of forty-two years and appeals as a matter of right.

In the early morning hours of March 22, 1992, Anthony Sanders, manager of a Louisville Shoney’s Restaurant, closed the restaurant and proceeded toward making the nightly deposit at a nearby bank. Accompanying Sanders were three employees, one of whom was taken home on…