Price v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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1. “We interpret the PFO statute as requiring that if the Commonwealth seeks enhancement by proof of PFO status, the defendant is entitled to notice of this before the trial of the underlying substantive offense. A separate indictment meets this requirement just as does a separate count in the indictment charging the substantive offense to which it refers.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jackson v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Hill

2. “While it is true that KRS 532.080 is an enhancement provision and that a present felony conviction is required to trigger its operation, this does not mean that a PFO charge cannot be set out in a separate indictment. If the legislature had intended that PFO charges be presented only in the indictment which charges the underlying substantive offense, it could have set out this requirement in specific terms just as it stated that a defendant’s status as a PFO is to be determined in a proceeding ancillary to the proceeding in which the defendant’s guilt on the substantive offense is decided.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jackson v. Commonwealth