Thursday, April 22, 2010
Supreme Court Reverses Hardin County Sentencing
KENTUCKY....
By a 5-2 vote, the Kentucky Supreme Court has reversed the two death sentences of Michael Dale St. Clair, a man convicted of a kidnapping and murder stemming from a 1991 multistate crime spree. The court concluded that a Bullitt County trial court erred in the case of St. Clair by incorrectly instructing the jury they could consider all of St. Clair's prior convictions for capital murder at the time Frank Brady was killed in 1991. Two murder convictions were handed down in Oklahoma before Brady's death, and two came after. St. Clair was twice sentenced to death, once in Hardin County and once in Bullitt County, for kidnapping and killing Brady when he and another man stole Brady's truck while running after a jail escape from Oklahoma. The Kentucky Attorney General's Office is reviewing the ruling.
By a 5-2 vote, the Kentucky Supreme Court has reversed the two death sentences of Michael Dale St. Clair, a man convicted of a kidnapping and murder stemming from a 1991 multistate crime spree. The court concluded that a Bullitt County trial court erred in the case of St. Clair by incorrectly instructing the jury they could consider all of St. Clair's prior convictions for capital murder at the time Frank Brady was killed in 1991. Two murder convictions were handed down in Oklahoma before Brady's death, and two came after. St. Clair was twice sentenced to death, once in Hardin County and once in Bullitt County, for kidnapping and killing Brady when he and another man stole Brady's truck while running after a jail escape from Oklahoma. The Kentucky Attorney General's Office is reviewing the ruling.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 9:30 PM 
