Carver v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “In Martin v. Commonwealth, 13 S.W.3d 232 (Ky.1999), it was held that a “reasonable inference” made by the jury on a necessary element satisfies the requirements of the PFO statute. Id. at 235 , overruling Hon v. Commonwealth, 670 S.W.2d 851 (Ky.1984). A “reasonable inference ... is a process of reasoning by which a proposition is deduced as a logical consequence from other facts already proven.” Id. In this matter, the jury was given the birth date of the Appellant and the dates of the convictions for the felonies. The jury could make a reasonable inference that since Appellant turned eighteen in 1975 that he likely committed at least two of these felonies after that date since the prosecution for the felonies did not occur until the 1990s.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Matthews v. Commonwealth