Kentucky Supreme Court· 4/2/2015

Nunn v. Commonwealth

Citations

461 S.W.3d 741
2015 Ky. LEXIS 88
2015 WL 2345640

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holding that prosecutor’s closing statement referring to defendant’s 14 failure to tell police the version of events he testified to at trial was “obviously improper” and “clear error.”
“[N]othing in the record reveals that Appellant sought a determination of ‘poor person’ status under KRS 23A.205.”
“[N]othing in the record reveals that Appellant sought a determination of ‘poor person’ status under KRS 23A.205.”
discussing how a palpable error must be not only obvious, but also serious, resulting in manifest injustice – meaning the error was shocking or “jurisprudentially intolerable” and there is a substantial possibility it affected the verdict or rendered the trial fundamentally unfair
“A trial court acts erroneously where it affirmatively misrepresents a defendant's choice of counsel as being between ‘only two alternatives: either represent himself or accept appointed counsel.’”

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