Wilson v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “ ‘[T]he rights provided to crime victims by KRS 421.500 through 421.550 belong to the victim independent of the Commonwealth, and cannot be plea bargained away without the crime victim’s actual approval.”
• \The victim has the right to convey the impact of the crime to the court and take a stand on sentencing. The Commonwealth and appellant could not dispose of these rights by their own agreement.\
• “The victim has the right to convey the impact of the crime to the court and take a stand on sentencing. The Commonwealth and appellant could not dispose of these rights by their own agreement.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hoskins v. Maricle
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2004-12-16· cited 335×
• Matheny v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2001-02-22· cited 10×
• Schroering v. McKinney
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1995-09-21· cited 3×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Santobello v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 5,257×
• Commonwealth v. Reyes
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 1989-01-19· cited 49×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-01-29· cited 35×
• Wood v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1971-06-18· cited 16×