{Louisville, Kentucky}...The Kentucky Supreme Court ordered a new trial Thursday for a man convicted of three slayings after finding that the cases should have been split and testimony was improperly allowed at the trial. Prosecutors will have to retry 26 year old Lloyd W. Hammond in separate cases for the June 2006 deaths of William Sawyers, Terell Cherry, and Kerry Williams which occurred in Louisville. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Hammond, but jurors recommended life in prison. Justice Daniel Venters ruled that a judge improperly allowed prosecutors to present all three deaths during the same trial although no serious contention was made that the Williams murder was connected to the other crimes.
