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- Title: Johnson V. Commonwealth
- Author : Kentucky Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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Following his convictions by an Ohio Circuit Court jury of possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), all committed while in possession of a firearm, Appellant was sentenced to a total of twenty years imprisonment. He appeals to this Court as a matter of right, Ky. Const. § 110(2)(b), contending that the trial court erred by (1) failing to instruct the jury on the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard with respect to the firearm enhancement issue; (2) failing to dismiss the enhancement issue because of insufficiency of the evidence to prove his possession of a firearm; (3) allowing the Commonwealth to play a videotape of the execution of the search warrant and his arrest; (4) failing to sufficiently cure the Commonwealth's reference to his prior guilty plea in another case; (5) failing to properly instruct the jury on the drug paraphernalia charge; and (6) allowing the Commonwealth to amend the indictment with respect to the charge of trafficking in methamphetamine. For the reasons hereinafter explained, we affirm.