Stanford v. Kentucky Stanford vs Kentucky is a supreme court case that caused major controversy. This court case was argued on March twenty-seventh of 1989 but was not decided until June twenty-sixth of 1989. This court case is based on a murder trial that was committed by Kevin Stanford in Kentucky. The court cases No. is 87-5765. This trial was difficult because the killer was only seventeen years old. His age determined if he would be held in a prison of juvenile center (LII). This is a murder crime committed by Kevin Stanford on January seventh of 1981 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Stanford shot Barbel Poore and killed her at the age of only seventeen years and four months. Poore was only twenty years old at the time of death. She was a gas station attendant that Stanford and an accomplice stole three hundred cigarettes …show more content…
Then he suggested they could have beaten or tied her up and threatened her instead. He let out chuckle in the court room. Stanford did not find this to be a serious crime. Unfortunately for him the court thought otherwise. Now the real question would be should he be tried as an adult or as a minor? A Kentucky Juvenile court stared hearings to get him out of the juvenile facility to be transferred to a trial for adults. Another case stated that the statute could be voided if it was a Class A felony, Capital crime or is over sixteen years of age. The court ruled that trialing him as an adult would be in the best interest of the petitioner and the community. He was tried as an adult and convicted of murder. He was also convicted of first degree sodomy, first-degree robbery, and receiving stolen property. His sentence was forty-five years of prison time and then a death sentence. Stanford demanded to have a “constitutional right to treatment” but was denied (Capital Punishment in