GUILTY TN - Chris Newsom, 23, & Channon Christian, 21, murdered, Knoxville, 6 Jan 2007 #20

[Foxfire]

http://wate.com/2014/12/10/parole-denied-for-vanessa-coleman/ <video>

Parole denied for Vanessa Coleman

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Parole was denied Wednesday for one of the suspects convicted in connection with the 2007 murder and carjacking of a young Knoxville couple.

Vanessa Coleman was found guilty of facilitating the rape, kidnapping and murder of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom. She was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

<Sniped - Scroll Down for Channon Christian's parent's reaction - video>

 

[CHERIE.T]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...just-two-years-starting-35-year-sentence.html










Woman who wrote that she loved life just days after horrific torture, rape and murder of young couple is refused parole just two years after starting 35-year sentence

 

[CHERIE.T]

Agree. May she rot and suffer tenfold over her Victims. Wants to cut hair LMAO ya like ya piece of pond scum could ever build a clientele. Sorry but ya cant change your spots. I pray your life is hell from now until you leave this earth. Prolly one of my harshest posts to date. Fitting and as it should be. IMO.

ditto

 

[Tulessa]

Oh my goodness......she will live not far from me...

OMG! Sending a prayer for you MissJ.

 

[Tulessa]

No worries it was denied. I did receive a form letter.

YEP! We don't want her in Kentucky!!

 

[MissJ]

I used to live in Knoxville. This was one of the most senseless. sadistic, heinous murders I have ever heard of..I hope she never gets out of jail we don't want her here. My heart breaks for the family and what their children endured.

 

[~Lyric~]

Appellate Court Opinion:

State of Tennessee v. Letalvis Cobbins, et al. In Re: Gary Christian, et al.
E2013-02726-CCA-WR-CO
Petitioners, the parents of the victims in the underlying criminal cases, sought to intervene in those proceedings for the purpose of challenging the trial court’s order to seal portions of an investigative file of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation that was identified during the motions for new trial in the underlying cases. Because we conclude that Petitioners have no statutory or constitutional right to access the sealed confidential information in the file, we affirm the trial court’s denial of their request to unseal.

http://www.tncourts.gov/courts/cour...opinions+(Tennessee+appellate+court+opinions)

The Opinion:
http://www.tsc.state.tn.us/sites/default/files/christiannewsomopn.pdf

 

[OkieGranny]

http://columbiadailyherald.com/news/state/ruling-parents-slaying-victims-public-can-t-see-tbi-file

A state appellate court on Wednesday ruled that both the parents of two Knox County slaying victims and the public are barred from reviewing an investigative file on the ex-judge whose crimes led to new trials in the high-profile case.

The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that Tennessee Bureau of Investigation files have been given special protection from the state Open Records Act &#8212; even when such a file is entered as an exhibit in judicial proceedings that do fall under the act.

It did so, the court acknowledged, without any case law attesting to the soundness of its decision.

 

[PrairieWind]

I will have to read this opinion. It seems perplexing.

 

[~Lyric~]

A state appeals court late Tuesday issued an opinion upholding the conviction and death sentence for the ringleader in one of Knoxville's most notorious crimes.

The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals in a 91-page opinion rejected every argument advanced by Lemaricus Davidson, who was sentenced to die in the January 2007 torture killings of Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23.


The appellate court, in the opinion authored by Judge James Curwood Witt Jr., ruled there was ample evidence to support all of Davidson's myriad convictions for the carjacking, kidnapping, rape and slayings of the couple. The court rejected claims by Davidson's defense team of bad rulings before trial, legal mistakes during the trial and constitutional issues involving the law itself.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/28388293/appeals-court-upholds-conviction-in-horrific-knoxville-slayings


Actual Opinion can be found here:

http://www.tncourts.gov/courts/cour...opinions+(Tennessee+appellate+court+opinions)

 

[iluvmua]

Ten years....... Hard to believe that it has been 10 years since these precious lives were snuffed out.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Eleven years after the torture killings of Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, a Knox County grand jury has charged Eric Boyd, long suspected as the fifth participant in their deaths.

Judge sets Sept. 10 trial date for Eric Boyd

Boyd was booked into the Knox County Detention Facility on Tuesday and is being held in lieu of a $1 million bond.

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/judge-sets-sept-10-trial-date-for-eric-boyd/51-535433983
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news...-christian-newsom-torture-slayings/485150002/

 

[a5adams]

It's been a long time coming. May justice be done. When the trial begins I look forward to conversing with all of you on this forum.

 

[Bravo]

This was one of the most horrific I ever followed here.

 

[lonetraveler]

I just found out today that Eric Boyd was charged in the murders. I've followed this case since the beginning and throughout the trials and I hope to follow this trial as well.

This case is still the most horrendous murders I've ever followed since I've been following trials and I've followed trials for four decades.

http://www.wate.com/news/local-news...ocial&utm_source=facebook_WATE_6_On_Your_Side

Just in case there is additional information in this article.

 

[Chi83]

That is horrific. I am sickened.

 

[Txstrace]

Absolutely the most horrific case I’ve followed. My heart breaks for the parents of these kids and the continuing injustices they have to deal with. If this isn’t a textbook case for the death penalty then I don’t know what is.

 

[AzPistonsGirl]

yep, probably the worst case I have followed also. What a travesty for so many lives... the waves from these savage senseless murders have such far-reaching ripples...

 

[Trebor5591]

Eric Boyd being treated for undisclosed medical condition; hearing reset in murder case

 

[Trebor5591]

Judge sets Sept. 10 trial date for Eric Boyd