After a local judge’s controversial dismissal of a Lexington murder case, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced Friday that Cornell Denmark Thomas II will face prosecution after all.
Previously, Thomas, aged 37, was charged with wanton murder in a June 2020 car crash near Leestown Road that killed Tammy Botkin, a 50-year-old Lexington woman.
At the time, Botkin’s car caught fire and Thomas was accused of fleeing the scene before being caught by police. Botkin, a retired Fayette County schools employee, was pronounced dead at the scene…