The Kentucky Court of Appeals announced 12 decisions  on June 26, 2015, with 1 of their opinions designated to be published.

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For the complete set of this week’s minutes listed all decisions (published and not to be published) with links to the full text of each at the AOC, the continue reading below the digested summaries of this week’s published cases.

Published appellate cases for  this week – June 26, 2015:

554.  Criminal Law, Post conviction DNA analysis harmless error
Michael Peak vs. Commonwealth of Kentucky
COA PUB   6/26/2015, Opinion affirming Jefferson County

VANMETER, JUDGE: In 2013, the General Assembly greatly expanded those criminal defendants who could have access to post-conviction DNA analysis. In this case, we must determine whether the Jefferson Circuit Court erred in its determination that it did not have jurisdiction to decide Michael A. Peak’s motion for testing. While we conclude the Circuit Court did err, we nevertheless hold that such determination was harmless error under the facts of this case and therefore affirm.

Selected not to be published decisions on tort, insurance and civil – NONE

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