COM. v. CHRISTIE

Nos. 2000-SC-0694-DG, 2000-SC-0702-DG.

98 S.W.3d 485 (2002)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellant, v. Arionne D. CHRISTIE, Appellee. Arionne D. Christie, Appellant, v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A.B. Chandler III, Attorney General of Kentucky, Matthew D. Nelson, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Attorney General, Criminal Appellate Division, Frankfort, for Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Daniel T. Goyette, Chief Jefferson District Public Defender, J. David Niehaus, Office of the Public Defender for Jefferson District Public Defender, Louisville, for Arionne D. Christie.


Opinion of the Court by Justice JOHNSTONE.

Arionne Christie was convicted by a Jefferson Circuit Court jury of first-degree robbery and first-degree burglary and was sentenced to two concurrent terms of ten years' imprisonment. On appeal to the Court of Appeals, Christie argued that the trial court erred in excluding expert testimony on the reliability of eyewitness identification, which the trial court had excluded on two alternative grounds: (1) the testimony was...

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