TN - Chris Newsom, 23, & Channon Christian, 21, murdered, Knoxville, 6 Jan 2007 #11

[Muffet]

There is NO WAY G will testify in my opinion.

Especially considering the way he couldn't or wouldn't give a straight answer in the interview.

That taped interview seems to be the most incriminating evidence against him, so far, imo. He just sounds guilty.

eta: unless they can get someone up there to show he is mentally challenged... I have to say, I wonder. To me, he sounds and acts like he's not all there - much more so than the other defendants.

 

[yolorado]

Especially considering the way he couldn't or wouldn't give a straight answer in the interview.

That taped interview seems to be the most incriminating evidence against him, so far, imo. He just sounds guilty.

eta: unless they can get someone up there to show he is mentally challenged... I have to say, I wonder. To me, he sounds and acts like he's not all there - much more so than the other defendants.

Agree and I actually think he has a shot of coming out of this without a murder or rape conviction. However, I really hope that someone who sat in that little house and did nothing (if) is considered a facilitator. If he isn't considered to have facilitated this thing and is somehow set free to walk among us because "it ain't none of my business, knowhatamean," then their ain't much justice in our country.

 

[JulieR]

Especially considering the way he couldn't or wouldn't give a straight answer in the interview.

That taped interview seems to be the most incriminating evidence against him, so far, imo. He just sounds guilty.

eta: unless they can get someone up there to show he is mentally challenged... I have to say, I wonder. To me, he sounds and acts like he's not all there - much more so than the other defendants.

Aw I missed most of that part and what I could hear I couldn't make out. I wish we could read a transcript of it, but it don't sound like he really said much anyway........just his longggg slang words over and over. You what Muffet I think he maybe mentally challenged, I am not sticking up for him at all, but that would be a good reason for how he looks and acts....I think it is more he is slow to get things, he still needs to pay I'm sure he knew right from wrong, but it just goes to reason with the way he acts....I'm sure the drugs don't speed him up any either. lol

 

[JulieR]

I know, I just don't think he will get death or life behind bar. I think he will get something, but it is just a hard call.........HE WAS WRONG, but the jury is going to look at the evidence and it don't look like he was the one that planned or really took part in it, I really don't think he shot Chris I did at one time, but I think this guy is so lazy he just wanted to party. It looks like he was there and what they give him for that I just don't know. I have to feel bad for his mother and aunt also, it must be really hard on them they look like good people.

 

[steelergirl]

Thanks again guys for reporting everything today. The ME's testimony is always the worst. I'm hoping that the jurors (based on thier questions) are seeing that there is NO way that he didn't know what was going on and they convict him on that fact alone.

His interrogation transcripts are out:
http://wate.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/news/TranscriptofGeorgeThomasinterrogation.pdf

 

[JulieR]

Thanks again guys for reporting everything today. The ME's testimony is always the worst. I'm hoping that the jurors (based on thier questions) are seeing that there is NO way that he didn't know what was going on and they convict him on that fact alone.

His interrogation transcripts are out:
http://wate.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/news/TranscriptofGeorgeThomasinterrogation.pdf

Gezzzz and I thought Davidsons was worthless.

 

[Muffet]

Thanks again guys for reporting everything today. The ME's testimony is always the worst. I'm hoping that the jurors (based on thier questions) are seeing that there is NO way that he didn't know what was going on and they convict him on that fact alone.

His interrogation transcripts are out:
http://wate.images.worldnow.com/images/incoming/news/TranscriptofGeorgeThomasinterrogation.pdf

Thank you, SG!

 

[Muffet]

OK, forgive me, but this very first paragraph just makes me lmao... Sickening as it is, it's like a spoof.

...And if I were a juror, I'd read it and feel ready right then and there to say "guilty". It has "lying" and "desperately fishing for something to say" written all over it.

 

[JulieR]

I feel bad for the officers that had to sit for two hours of that BS, talk about self control I would have been over that table had him, gagged, hogtied, blindfolded.....you get the picture. He really sounds like a worthless piece of crap.

 

[Muffet]

So, what are you saying?

After 33 pages? Basically? Nuttin', man.

Except "Know what I'm saying" ("nomsayin") 82 times. (Yes, I counted them. I'm a hopeless geek. I hope the transcriptioner used a macro.)

Half of me thinks his brain is truly that fried, but then again... he wore down the detectives and got through the interrogation without contradicting himself, needing to retract or admit he lied about anything, or tying himself down to anything that could be proved false, afaict.

So he's either really stupid, or smarter than LD and Cobbins both.

(BTW, the first 6 pages are tacked onto the end of the .pdf, if anyone wonders or wants to read sequentially.)

 

[Muffet]

Two other thoughts:

One, does anyone else wonder why the detectives spoon fed him from the beginning that it was Slim, Rome, and E Boyd who went out to do the carjacking and left G home with Nessa?

As I read that in the first 6 pages, I almost got the sense that they took G by surprise.

The detectives were obviously exhausted and impatient.

Secondly, does this seem kind of tweaky?

 

[JulieR]

Muffet,

You crack me up, are you friends with suzi? lol
82 times really!!! Seemed like 182, haha
Not sure what to think of that line about the daughter, but him saying it could have been a mess is telling....like he knows bad things have already taken place. He just seems to want to come off as an idiot, or is he? He talks like one, walks like one and hey he looks like one. Really he just comes off as slow, or like he has done HARD drugs since he was very young. I wonder how much schooling he had and what his younger years were like. I would like to hear from his family, the mother and aunt. I think this would be a really hard case to be a juror on, we know he is wrong, we know he should have done something to get help but this guy just don't seem right. He is not a VC who is out there running her mouth and we know she is lying, her story don't add up. I just can't put my finger on the right words for this guy, I am just not sure what to make of him.

 

[kiki the parrot]

When I hear him speak during his interview he doesn't sound slow to me, he sounds like he be talkin circles around the detectives, and has mastered the art of rambling w/out sayin anything and baffling them w his bs nomsayn. Hey he might be foolin some of the peeps some of the time, but he don't be foolin ol kiki... :snooty: :shakehead: :no:

arrot:

 

[steelergirl]

I just got back to finish reading that mess. Biggest headace...ever. Man I feel bad for those detectives.

I felt like they kinda prodded him along too, Muffet. They made the comment that they had been going on for hours with him...maybe they had already gotten those parts from him and they were trying to get more? Or maybe they were just desperate to get out of that room...can't say I blame them.

Sometimes I think that he knows exactly what he's doing with the detectives...giving them just enough but not realllly enough, nowmsayn? Then I think, no way is he that smart. I'm like 60/40 (playing detectives/screwed up in the head). And I agree with JulieR, I don't think just weed is his issue as he claims. This one is sooooo hard, I really really really hope he gets at the least life.

 

[steelergirl]

When I hear him speak during his interview he doesn't sound slow to me, he sounds like he's talkin circles around the detectives, and has mastered the art of rambling w/out sayin anything and baffling them w his bs nomsayn. Hey he might be foolin some of the peeps some of the time, be he ain't foolin ol kiki... :snooty: :shakehead: :no:

arrot:

I so wish we had a LOL button sometimes!

 

[steelergirl]

Two other thoughts:

One, does anyone else wonder why the detectives spoon fed him from the beginning that it was Slim, Rome, and E Boyd who went out to do the carjacking and left G home with Nessa?

As I read that in the first 6 pages, I almost got the sense that they took G by surprise.

The detectives were obviously exhausted and impatient.

Secondly, does this seem kind of tweaky?

Hey Muffet! I've been thinking about this part of the statement, he is the only one to mention that Daphne brought her daughter isn't he? If I remember correctly Daphne was staying with her friend in her apartment, so I believe her mother had her kids (eta, her mom did have her kids per this article: http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=56630 : Daphne said they went to live with her mom in December because LD started hitting her.) so she wouldn't have had them with her.

Interesting....wonder why he added that little tidbit?

 

[JulieR]

When I hear him speak during his interview he doesn't sound slow to me, he sounds like he's talkin circles around the detectives, and has mastered the art of rambling w/out sayin anything and baffling them w his bs nomsayn. Hey he might be foolin some of the peeps some of the time, but he don't be foolin ol kiki... :snooty: :shakehead: :no:

arrot:

Uh see I missed that part, when I signed on he was pretty much finished and what little I could hear I couldn't make out what was being said. I would like to have seen and heard him talking it would make it easier to figure him out.

 

[JulieR]

How old is GT ?

 

[steelergirl]

How old is GT ?

Hey Julie! He's 26.

 

[JulieR]

Thanks, I was thinking he was younger for some reason.