Posted at 5:15 p.m., Friday, April 28, 2006
Man convicted of murder a second time on Kaua'i
Advertiser Staff
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — William McCrory, convicted of murder a second time after his initial conviction was overturned, has been sentenced by Circuit Judge Kathleen Watanabe to life in prison, with the possibility of parole.McCrory, 49, was tried in March after the reversal of his 2002 conviction in the murder of Brent "Kirby" Kerr at Nawiliwili Oct. 26, 2001. The Hawai'i Supreme Court ruled that a witness had provided unfair and prejudicial testimony during the first trial. That witness was not called by the prosecution in the latest trial.
Kerr, who had been sleeping in a van, was stabbed to death. A witness, Billy Pierce, was in McCrory's truck at the time of the killing and testified at the first trial, but died before the second. His testimony from the first trial was read to the jury during last month's trial.
