Numerous sub-issues, and many of which were not preserved for review Meece seeks review of forty-five listed issues, "some of which comprise Standard of Review of Unpreserved Issues in Death Penalty Appeals
RODNEY DALE MEECE COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL TRIAL
Trial was rescheduled for Augand concluded with the Thereafter, the parties agreed to a transfer of venue to the Warren CircuitĬourt.
Was later set aside upon Meece's motion and new counsel were then appointed. Of a sentence of life without parole for twenty-five years. His guilty plea (following voir dire) upon the Commonwealth's recommendation Meece's first trial began in November 2004, but ended with the tender of Jury indicted Meece and Wellnitz by separate, consecutive indictments for theīurglary, robbery, and murder of the Wellnitz family. In February 2003-ten years after the murders-an Adair County Grand The murders occurred during the commission of a robbery andīurglary (both in the first degree) and were otherwise committed for profit. Wellnitz, his wife, Beth, and their son Dennis in their home in Columbia, AdairĬounty, Kentucky in the early morning hours of February 26, 1993, at theīehest, and with the assistance of, their daughter, Meg Wellnitz Appleton The first degree, and to death for each of three convictions for murder.Īccording to evidence introduced at trial, Meece shot and killed Joe (for a total of forty years) on two convictions of robbery and burglary, both of William Harry Meece (Meece) appeals from the judgment of the WarrenĬircuit Court sentencing him to consecutive twenty-year terms of confinement The Court affirmed the judgment and sentence of the circuit court, holding in part that (1) there was no abuse of discretion regarding the evidence admitted at trial (2) there was no abuse of discretion regarding excluded evidence (3) the procedural issues during trial raised by Meece did not involve an abuse of discretion (4) the trial court's jury instructions were not erroneous and the trial court did not err in connection with the penalty phase instructions (5) the death penalty is constitutional and appropriate in Meece's case and (6) Meece received a fair trial and there was no cumulative effect that mandated reversal. However, where the death penalty was imposed, the Supreme Court reviewed allegations for those quasi errors. Meece sought review of forty-five listed issues, some of which were either not raised in the lower court or were not preserved for review. Appellant William Meece appealed from a judgment of the circuit court sentencing him to consecutive twenty-year terms of confinement on two convictions of robbery and burglary and to death for each of three convictions for murder.
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