William Sloss v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

Summary

The Kentucky Supreme Court affirmed Sloss’s convictions and fifty-year sentence for murder, abuse of a corpse, and being a first-degree persistent felony offender. It held that Sloss knowingly and voluntarily waived his right to be present by repeatedly refusing to attend trial, that the trial court properly denied a mistrial and directed verdicts, and that the challenged prior-abuse and hearsay evidence was admissible. The court also rejected cumulative error.