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FIELDS v. COM.

No. 1999-SC-1026-MR.

44 S.W.3d 355 (2001)

Delania FIELDS, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied May 24, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ned Barry Pillersdorf, Pillersdorf, Derossett & Barrett, Prestonsburg, Counsel for Appellant.

A. B. Chandler, III, Attorney General, Anitria M. Franklin, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Attorney General, Criminal Appellate Division, Frankfort, Counsel for Appellee.

COOPER, Justice.

Appellant Delania Fields was indicted by a Letcher County Grand Jury for the murder of her newborn child. She was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and sentenced to twenty years in prison. She appeals to this court as a matter of right, Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b), asserting three claims of error, viz: (1) there was insufficient evidence of extreme emotional disturbance to warrant an instruction on first-degree manslaughter; (2...

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