Brown v. Commonwealth

The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the trial court convicting Defendant of complicity to kidnapping, complicity to attempted murder, and complicity to first-degree robbery and sentencing Defendant to a total of forty years’ imprisonment, holding that there was no reversible error in the proceedings below.Specifically, the Court held (1) the trial court did not err in denying Defendant’s motion for directed verdict on his kidnapping charge; (2) Defendant was not tried in the wrong county; (3) Defendant suffered no undue prejudice when he was denied a continuance; (4) any error in the admission of the victim’s statements was harmless, and there was no prosecutorial misconduct in references to the victim’s statements; and (5) the jury instructions contained no unanimity error. View "Brown v. Commonwealth" on Justia Law