FOLEY v. COM.

No. 2009-SC-000428-TG.

306 S.W.3d 28 (2010)

Robert Carl FOLEY, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

March 18, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Anthony Palombi, Montgomery, AL, Heather Christina McGregor, Assistant Public Advocate, Department of Public Advocacy, LaGrange, KY, Counsel for Appellant.

Jack Conway, Attorney General, David Wayne Barr, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Office of Criminal Appeals, Frankfort, KY, Counsel for Appellee.


Opinion of the Court by Justice VENTERS.

Robert Carl Foley appeals from a Franklin Circuit Court order denying his petition for declaratory judgment pursuant to KRS 418.040. In his petition Foley sought to have Kentucky's self-defense statutes as they existed at the time of his 1991 trial (and to the extent they now remain inconsistent with KRS 503.055— the castle doctrine statute) declared unconstitutional.

The circuit court determined that there was...

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