Commonwealth v. Tamme

*467WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Fayette Circuit Court vacating Tamme’s convictions for two capital murders and sentence of death and ordering a new trial.

The history of this proceeding is lengthy. In 1985, a jury found Tamme guilty of two counts of intentional murder, and he was sentenced to death for each of the murders. His convictions were reversed by a majority of this Court in Tamme v. Commonwealth, Ky., 759 S.W.2d 51 (1988). Tamme was tried again in 1994, and again found guilty of two intentional murders and sentenced to death. This Court affirmed the second…