Kathleen Wise v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

Summary

The court affirmed Wise’s murder conviction and life sentence, holding that she knowingly and voluntarily waived her Miranda rights before the polygraph and that the waiver extended to questioning by both the polygraph examiner and the investigating deputies. The court also held that her unpreserved claim concerning the failure to instruct on first-degree manslaughter was not subject to palpable-error review. Venters, J., concurring in result only, would have suppressed Wise’s statements to the investigating deputies but concluded that their admission was harmless.