Document Type
Article
Publication Date
September 2018
Department
Law
Department
Libraries
Abstract
In Kentucky criminal law, it is useful to divide legal history into two broad eras: the years before the 1970s and those after that pivotal decade of reforms. The 1970s brought a new court system, a dramatic bail reform law which criminalized the hated bail-bondsmen and even a new court house. However, for the modern case law researcher the most significant change was the adoption of a statutory penal code—a code that marked a break between the two centuries of common-law crimes that preceded 1974 and the four decades afterwards.
ThinkIR Citation
Metzmeier, Kurt, "Kentucky Criminal Law Reform in the Age of Aquarius" (2018). Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 746.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/746
