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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The test of whether it should be treated as a hate crime would be to present the evidence to a prosecutor with the races reversed.
Google their names and read what those animals did to these two kids. You will be nauseated.
Live Channel 6 Blog from a reporter in the courtroom.
http://www.wate.net/news/live-blog/cobbins-trial
here’s how the AP spins it:
“The case is racially charged — the defendants are poor and black, the victims, middle-class and white.”
see, it’s all about being poor and black....gotta get that part in there.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hNmWe_648Dmb82xnnYiHPpdPTSkQD9A4OIQG2
Let the punishment fit the crime. They deserve slow miserable deaths..
Remember the prosecutor said that these accused perpetrators knew and interacted with white folk so there wasn’t any reason to call this a hate crime.
All crimes are hate crimes.
But besides that, if I am ever going to be the victim of a "carjacking", I will accelerate my vehicle into the nearest sturdy object as quickly as possible. I will train my family to do the same. If I survive the impact and I am physically able, I will retrieve my tire iron and I will beat the perpetrator(s) into such a bloody pulp that they are racially unrecognizable.
The last time Knox County brought a jury from Davidson County to decide a murder case was the 1999 trial of Thomas “Zoo Man” Huskey, who claimed a split personality and an alter ego killed four women. The jury failed to reach a verdict after four days of deliberation. A mistrial was declared and the confession later thrown out on appeal.
Based on this information, they will walk.
horrible story
No, they won’t walk because the defendant on trial has already plead guilty to robbery, sodomy, and rape. I think I heard that one of the others copped a deal with the DA to testify against the others if he didn’t get the death penalty. I’ll look.
A mistrial was declared and “the confession later thrown out on appeal”.
As per the previous trial under similar circumstances. I’m not, in any way, hoping it happens, but the history in that area points elsewhere. If it comes out differently, please let me know!
Take the garbage out......death penalty for each one.
Yep, if they ever get in the care with you, drive along calmly about 40 mph and then suddenly swerve into an embankment or overpass piling. They will become a human projectile and (hopefully) be killed on impact.
If it wasn’t for white liberals and knee jerk democrat voters we wouldn’t be in this mess
They are the real causes of the fall of this country
They have already been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness. The media and the left don’t give a damn about hate crimes committed against Whites.
The prosecutor is named “Takishia”. Any guess why she didn’t want to pursue a hate crime indictment?
“Carjackings that go terribly awry” typically end in a bullet to the head in some open field somewhere, or perhaps a rape if the victim is female and the perp(s) are male. They don’t usually end up with the male being anally raped, beaten, tied up, shot three times, and having his body turned. They don’t usually end up with the female being “savaged” anally, vaginally, and orally, scrubbed down with caustic chemicals, beaten, mutilated, and left to suffocate while stuffed into a trash can.
I have no idea if this was racially based or not. All I do know is that four people capable of doing something like this don’t deserve to draw another breath on this earth. The only justice they deserve is a bullet in the back of the head.
}:-)4
I like the dragging them to the middle of town. I’d rather disembowel them, then pour the gasoline, set it on fire. Once burned out - gather the ashes in the nearest landfill.
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