Major v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
October 2017
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lopez v. United States · Commonwealth v. English · United States v. Klee · Ice v. Commonwealth · Skaggs v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
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“Since official proceedings had not been instituted against the Appellant for the murder of Marlene at the time of the taping, and he was not incarcerated, [the phone call] was not in violation of the Appellant’s Fifth or Sixth Amendment rights. Moreover, even though the phone conversation took place [between] James Major’s residence in Nova Scotia [and] the Appellant’s residence, then in Massachusetts, the activity was appropriate under Kentucky Criminal Law, KRS 526.010; thus not in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. The practice of recording conversations with the consent of at least one party to the conversation has long been recognized in Kentucky jurisprudence. Carrier v. Commonwealth, 607 S.W.2d 115 (Ky.App.1980); see also Lopez v. U.S., 373 U.S. 427 , 83 S.Ct. 1381 , 10 L.Ed.2d 462 (1963)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e have upheld the admission of weapons into evidence based upon testimony that the weapon was the one used in the commission of the offense, Beason v. Commonwealth, 548 S.W.2d 835 (Ky.1977), or that it was of the same size and shape as the weapon used in the commission of the offense, Sweatt v. Commonwealth, 550 S.W.2d 520 (Ky.1977); or that it was found at the scene of the offense and was capable of inflicting the type of injury sustained by the victim, Barth v. Commonwealth, 80 S.W.3d 390 (Ky.2001). However, weapons, which have no relation to the crime, are inadmissible. Gerlaugh v. Commonwealth, 156 S.W.3d 747 (Ky.2005).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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