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HUGHES v. COM.

No. 2000-SC-0156-MR.

87 S.W.3d 850 (2002)

Troy DeWayne HUGHES, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

August 22, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

V. Gene Lewter, Fayette Co. Legal Aid, Inc., Lexington, Counsel for Appellant.

A.B. Chandler, III, Attorney General, Susan Roncarti, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Attorney General, Criminal Appellate Division, Frankfort, Counsel for Appellee.

COOPER, Justice.

On January 3, 1999, officers of the Lexington-Fayette Division of Police discovered the dead body of Keisha Hughes in apartment 405, 325 Bainbridge, Lexington, Kentucky, a residence she shared with her husband, Appellant Troy DeWayne Hughes, and her two children by a previous relationship. Appellant later confessed to killing his wife by strangulation. He entered a conditional guilty plea, RCr 8.09, to murder and was sentenced to forty years in prison...

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