Kentucky Supreme Court

Airan Hernandez Mendez v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

December 18, 2025

Summary

The Court affirmed the convictions and twenty-year sentence after rejecting four claims of error involving testimony, sufficiency of the evidence, other-acts evidence, and lesser-included-offense instructions. It held that the challenged testimony was permissible, the evidence supported the obscenity conviction, the other-acts evidence was properly admitted with adequate notice, and the evidence did not support lesser instructions.