Dunlap v. Commonwealth

Docket Number2010-SC-000226-MR
Decision Date20 February 2014

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  • St. Clair v. Commonwealth
    • United States
    • Supreme Court of Kentucky
    • August 21, 2014
    ...must be punished by death. To the contrary, ‘a jury can reject a death sentence for any (or no) reason at all.’ ” Dunlap v. Commonwealth, 435 S.W.3d 537, 618 (Ky.2013) (quoting Ordway v. Commonwealth, 391 S.W.3d 762, 786 (Ky.2013) ).St. Clair's claim that sentencing disparity violated equal......
  • State v. Kleypas
    • United States
    • Kansas Supreme Court
    • October 21, 2016
    ...N.E.2d 454, 458 (Ind. 2005) (Supreme Court has not held that mentally ill persons are not subject to the death penalty); Dunlap v. Com. , 435 S.W.3d 537, 616 (Ky. 2013) (“We are not prepared to hold that mentally ill persons are categorically ineligible for the death penalty.”), cert. denie......
  • Futrell v. Commonwealth, 2013–SC–000184–MR
    • United States
    • Supreme Court of Kentucky
    • September 24, 2015
    ...to be removed for cause.Because the trial court did not allow the parties any extra, error-correcting peremptories, seeDunlap v. Commonwealth,435 S.W.3d 537 (Ky. 2013)(approving the use of extra peremptories as a way of rendering harmless that same number of erroneous failures to remove for......
  • Sneed v. Burress
    • United States
    • Supreme Court of Kentucky
    • March 17, 2016
    ...to only when there appears in the record a manifest necessity for such an action or an urgent or real necessity.” Dunlap v. Commonwealth, 435 S.W.3d 537, 604 (Ky.2013), as modified (Feb. 20, 2014).5 We have instructed the trial courts that their discretion to order a mistrial “is to be used......
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