Monday, January 10, 2011
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Kentucky Appeal
KENTUCKY...
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up Kentucky's effort to reinstate a death sentence for a man convicted of murder.
The high court on Monday rejected the case of Phillip L. Brown, who was convicted in the 2001 slaying of Sherry Bland in Columbia in Adair County. The Kentucky Supreme Court in June ruled that Brown should not have faced a death sentence at a retrial in 2006 because he was given life in prison at his first trial three years earlier.
The state high court ordered a resentencing for Brown.
Kentucky prosecutors asked the justices to take the case in an effort to keep the death penalty option open. The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue an opinion saying why the case was rejected.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up Kentucky's effort to reinstate a death sentence for a man convicted of murder.
The high court on Monday rejected the case of Phillip L. Brown, who was convicted in the 2001 slaying of Sherry Bland in Columbia in Adair County. The Kentucky Supreme Court in June ruled that Brown should not have faced a death sentence at a retrial in 2006 because he was given life in prison at his first trial three years earlier.
The state high court ordered a resentencing for Brown.
Kentucky prosecutors asked the justices to take the case in an effort to keep the death penalty option open. The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue an opinion saying why the case was rejected.
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