B Scott West Approves / Does Not Approve!

With this last legislative session’s passage of House Bill 5, those who intentionally cause damage to another person’s property can now buy their way out of a felony! If you are poor, the only way you can get out of a felony is to do community service, and the number of hours have to be […]

In December 2018, the Kentucky Supreme Court decided Henderson v Commonwealth, 563 S.W.3d 651 (Ky. 2018), a case where the defendant, Mr. Henderson – charged with and convicted of Assault, Sexual Abuse, and Unlawful Imprisonment, all in the first degree – complained about not getting his constitutional right to a “fast and speedy trial.”  In […]