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The Kentucky General Assembly abolished the felony murder rule with the enactment of Kentucky Revised Statutes § 507.020. Recognizing that an automatic application of the rule could result in conviction of murder without a culpable mindset, the Kentucky Legislature instead allowed the circumstances of a case, like the commission of a felony, to be considered separately.
In the State of Texas, intoxication manslaughter is a distinctly defined offense. A person commits intoxication manslaughter if he, or she, operates a motor vehicle in a public place, operates an aircraft, a watercraft, or an amusement ride, or assembles a mobile amusement ride while intoxicated and, by reason of that intoxication, causes the ...
In 2008, there were 122,960 crimes reported in Kentucky, including 198 murders. [1] In 2020, there were 9,820 violent-crime incidents, and 11,349 offenses reported in Kentucky by 423 law enforcement agencies that submitted National Incident-Based Reporting System data, and covers 99% of the total population.
Kentucky State Police have located a possible murder suspect who was considered armed and dangerous, the agency announced Monday. KSP was notified Monday morning by the Grayson County Sheriff’s ...
Under Senate Bill 45, the Department of Kentucky State Police is required to create a Kentucky Ashanti Alert System to notify the public when an adult is missing and may have been abducted or ...
Kentucky law enforcement officials continued a manhunt for Joseph A. Couch for a third day Monday in a vast and dense wooded area off I-75, where he allegedly shot and seriously injured five people.
The Kentucky State Police (KSP) is a department of the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the official State Police force of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, responsible for statewide law enforcement. The department was founded in 1948 and replaced the Kentucky Highway Patrol.
Kentucky is the only state without provision on what happens if the penalty phase of the trial results in a hung jury. Thus, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that in cases that end with a hung jury, the judge must order a penalty retrial, applying the common law rule for mistrial.