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Trial Under Way in Racially Charged Carjacking, Rape and Murder of Knoxville Couple
Fox News ^ | 8/18/09 | Unknown

Posted on 08/19/2009 12:11:11 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Trial is under way in Knoxville for the first of four people charged in the kidnapping, rape and killing of a young couple more than two years ago.

As court convened Monday, the judge read each of the 38 counts against 26-year-old Letalvis Cobbins. His attorney, Scott Green, responded by entering pleas.

Green said his client pleaded guilty to five counts of facilitating robbery or theft in the carjacking that set the crimes into motion in 2007. He also pleaded guilty to one count of rape. To the remaining counts, Green responded "not guilty."

Cobbins — of Lebanon, Ky. — is also charged with murder and kidnapping in the killings of 23-year-old Christopher Newsom and his 21-year-old girlfriend Channon Christian.

When Christopher Newsom's bound, shot and burned body was identified the day after he was killed in 2007, authorities warned his mother the sight would be too gruesome for her to see.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: channonchristian; christian; christophernewsom; crime; diversity; hatecrime; holderspeople; letalvis; newsome; tennesee
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You can google the names Christopher Newsome and Channon Christian and find out the heinous things that these brutal savages did to them because Newsome and Christian were white. Notice how quiet the national media is on this vs. the dragging death of a black man in Texas.
1 posted on 08/19/2009 12:11:12 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I’m sure that this will be all over the TV tonite, as it has been since the incident occurred. /sarc


2 posted on 08/19/2009 12:13:10 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Blood of Tyrants

But it’s not a hate crime according to our racist AG Holder -

the victims must be black in order for that to apply.


3 posted on 08/19/2009 12:13:50 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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Before it is all over, the murderers will be the “victims”.


4 posted on 08/19/2009 12:14:33 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Obamacare: all the efficiency of the DMV and all the compassion of the IRS.)
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The truly reprehensible part of this story IIRC is that they kept them alive, the girl for a day or two and multiple people outside of the group charged knew they were holding these kids and raping the girl and those folks SAID NOTHING. They didn't call the police, they didn't intervene, they didn't lift a hand. None of those folks are charged. Not a crime cause the victims were white. Now if the races were reversed in this story half the county would be under indictment.

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5 posted on 08/19/2009 12:14:47 PM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" or "come get some")
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Immediate execution for all involved, PERIOD. This was a crime in which torture, sadism, rape, and ultimately murder were done without regard. These people are dogs, animals, vicious scum. They can serve no purpose. You give a mad dog a bullet because there’s nothing else that can be done. Do the same thing here.


6 posted on 08/19/2009 12:15:28 PM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Try them and then drag them into the street and string them up by the neck until they are dead. Then put a bullet through their brains. Then pour gas on them and burn them. Then bulldoze them into a sewerhole. Then send their remains to their momma.


7 posted on 08/19/2009 12:15:32 PM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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To: wastoute

The question is - are the people who are pushing this injustice INTENTIONALLY inciting a race war? Or are they simply trying to keep the racial tension high in order to keep their own gravytrain running?


8 posted on 08/19/2009 12:16:41 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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and while I'm at it, what took so long getting these "alleged" perps into a courtroom? Is the death penalty on the menu? If not, why?

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9 posted on 08/19/2009 12:17:18 PM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" or "come get some")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

If these animals don’t get the death penalty there is no hope for this country.


10 posted on 08/19/2009 12:17:57 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“racially charged”

Nooooooooo. Not quite.

The dancing minstrels were something “racially charged”.

This is knocking on the door of race-based warfare by some.


11 posted on 08/19/2009 12:18:13 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out (click my name)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Channon Christian and Hugh Newsom

12 posted on 08/19/2009 12:18:34 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Blood of Tyrants

One of many horrific crimes where “eye for an eye” justice should be applied.


13 posted on 08/19/2009 12:18:40 PM PDT by Recovering Hermit (I shot the rooster, the one that used'er, wake me up at four A.M....)
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From wikipedia:

According to news reports, Christian and Newsom had gone on a date at a local restaurant on Saturday, January 6, 2007, but did not return home. During their night out, the couple was “hijacked, bound and blindfolded and taken back to Lemaricus Devall ‘Slim’ Davidson’s rented house on Chipman Street.”[4]

Christian’s parents found her abandoned Toyota 4-Runner two blocks away from the Chipman Street house the following Monday with the help of her mobile phone provider. An envelope recovered from the vehicle yielded fingerprint evidence that led police to Lemaricus Davidson and 2316 Chipman Street. When police went to the address on Tuesday, January 9, they found the home unoccupied and Christian’s body in a trash can in the kitchen.

According to the testimony of the Knox County Acting Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan at the subsequent trial of Eric Boyd, Newsom was repeatedly raped and then blindfolded, gagged, arms and feet bound and his head covered. Barefoot, he was either led or dragged outside the house to a set of nearby railroad tracks. He was shot in the back of the head, the neck, and the back, and his body then set on fire. Christian’s death would come only after hours of sexual torture, medical examiner Mileusnic-Polchan testified. Christian suffered horrific injuries to her vagina, anus and mouth. She was not only raped but savaged with “an object,” possibly a broken chair leg, the doctor testified. She was beaten in the head. Some type of chemical was poured down her throat, and her body, including her bleeding and battered genital area, likely scrubbed with the same solution - all while Christian was alive, the forensic expert said. She was then “hog-tied,” with curtains and strips of bedding, her face covered tightly with a small trash bag and her body stashed inside five large trash bags before being placed inside a large trash can and covered with sheets. Christian died slowly, suffocating, the medical examiner said.[5]


14 posted on 08/19/2009 12:19:07 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Obamacare: all the efficiency of the DMV and all the compassion of the IRS.)
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Execution is too good for them. They deserve worse.


15 posted on 08/19/2009 12:21:43 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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unbelievable


16 posted on 08/19/2009 12:21:57 PM PDT by mikethevike
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To: MrB
But there is no evidence that it was a racially motivated hate crime. Evidently they were random murder victims of a randomly predatory sociopath who wasn't targeting his prey by skin color.

Even the victims' parents don't believe the motive was racial. From the article:

Police, prosecutors and the victims' families maintain that Newsom and Christian were not victims of a hate crime, rather victims of a carjacking that went terribly awry.

17 posted on 08/19/2009 12:22:41 PM PDT by leilani
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To: wastoute

I would guess that the lawyers held up the case for their own purposes.


18 posted on 08/19/2009 12:23:09 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Obamacare: all the efficiency of the DMV and all the compassion of the IRS.)
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To: MrB
I think your question is more acurately, "Is the Brown Shirt Media ignoring this story to the purpose of infuriating white folks and precipitating a race war?" At least I take that to be your meaning.

I think we have to examine the Brown Shirt Media's dereliction on a number of issues, race being just one. They ignored murders in Nebraska or Kansas a few years back as well. Two (IIRC) "African-Americans" sodomized and murdered 4 kids (again IIRC one or two guys and 2 or 3 girls). One of the kids was shot in the head and lived to testify but I don't remember the outcome of the trial. The Brown Shirt Media did a coomplete blackout on that one as well.

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19 posted on 08/19/2009 12:23:24 PM PDT by wastoute (translation of tag "Come and get them (bastards)" or "come get some")
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These are not people but savages them and their families need removed from the gene pool before there are more of this spawn around.


20 posted on 08/19/2009 12:23:47 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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