Nick Ratliff, Appellant v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, Appellee

Summary

The court affirmed Ratliff's convictions for intentional murder and seven counts of first-degree criminal abuse, rejecting challenges to severance, juror qualifications, evidentiary sufficiency, expert testimony, photographs, double jeopardy, jury instructions, and alleged juror sleeping. The court held that the evidence supported the verdicts, the challenged evidentiary and trial-management rulings were within the trial court's discretion, and the requested lesser-offense instructions were unsupported by the evidence. It vacated the final judgment and remanded for correction of the erroneous eighth criminal-abuse conviction and the sentencing information.