BAKER v. COM.

No. 94-SC-162-MR.

922 S.W.2d 371 (1996)

Susanne BAKER, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied June 20, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rebecca Ballard DiLoreto, Assistant Public Advocate, Department of Public Advocacy, Frankfort, for appellant.

A.B. Chandler III, Attorney General, Perry T. Ryan, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Appellate Division, Office of the Attorney General, Frankfort, Danny Evans, London, for appellee.


LAMBERT, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of kidnapping ten-year-old Donald Scott Baker and of reckless homicide in connection with his death. In this matter of right appeal, appellant seeks reversal of the reckless homicide conviction on grounds that double jeopardy principles prevent her conviction of both crimes. In essence, she claims that the elements of the charges, as set forth in the court's instructions,1 were "so inexorably interwoven...

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