COM. v. MONSON

No. 92-SC-616-DG.

860 S.W.2d 272 (1993)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellant, v. Jerome J. MONSON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied September 30, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chris Gorman, Atty. Gen., Pamela J. Murphy, David A. Smith, Perry T. Ryan, Asst. Attys. Gen., Criminal Appellate Div., Frankfort, for appellant.

Fred E. Fischer, Louisville, for amicus curiae, City of Jeffersontown, KY., a Municipal Corp. of the Fourth Class.

Stephen D. Wolnitzek, Smith, Wolnitzek, Schachter & Rowekamp, P.S.C., Covington, for amicus curiae, Kentucky State Lodge Fraternal Order of Police.

John M. Famularo, Stites & Harbison, Lexington, for amicus curiae, Kentucky Ass'n. of Chiefs of Police.

R. Barry Wehrman, Wehrman & Wehrman, Chartered, Covington, for appellee.


SPAIN, Justice.

We granted discretionary review in this case to address the issue of whether KRS 95.740(1) confers county-wide arrest powers upon police officers of fourth-class cities. We now answer the question in the affirmative, reversing a panel of the Court of Appeals, which held that said statute was an "... authoritative rather than a geographic grant of power to arrest."

The case under review arose out of the arrest of the appellee, Jerome J. Monson...

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