Micah Holland v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

Summary

The Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed Holland's wanton-murder conviction and twenty-year sentence. It held that the evidence supported alternative instructions on intentional and wanton murder, the existing definition of wantonness adequately guided the jury, and the self-protection instructions were legally sufficient. The court further held that the victim-character claim was unpreserved, no evidence supported an extreme-emotional-disturbance instruction, and there was no cumulative error.