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Special judge grants new trials for torture-slaying defendants, cites Baumgartner's conduct
Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 12/1/11

Posted on 12/01/2011 9:17:02 PM PST by SmithL

KNOXVILLE — A special judge today granted new trials for four defendants in the 2007 torture-slaying cases, agreeing with lawyers that presiding Judge Richard Baumgartner's conduct led to fundamental structural flaws in the prosecutions.

Jon Kerry Blackwood, his voice at times rising to a shout, said Baumgartner was obviously intoxicated in 2009 and 2010 while Lemaricus Davidson, Letalvis Cobbins, George Thomas and Vanessa Coleman were being prosecuted.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: baumgartner; channonchristian; christiannewsom; christophernewsom; knoxville; knoxvillehorror; pervertedjustice

1 posted on 12/01/2011 9:17:07 PM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL
"Davidson is serving a death sentence, Cobbins and Thomas are serving life sentences and Coleman is serving 53 years"

How exactly does one "serve" a death sentence?

2 posted on 12/01/2011 9:35:35 PM PST by matthew fuller (Hey Buckwheat- What the Hell are we paying you for?...(GO NEWT!))
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To: SmithL
Jon Kerry Blackwood, his voice at times rising to a shout, said Baumgartner was obviously intoxicated in 2009 and 2010
Whoop-dee-do. So the judge was drunk.

We have druggie Crack Smoking POTUS and a U.S. AG who, by his actions and decisions, is IMO, apparently shooting up heroin, dropping LSD, or eating magic mushrooms.(1).

(1) someone check his iPod for a continuous loop of 'Inna Godda Da Vida' (YouTube, Original 17:02 Version)

3 posted on 12/02/2011 7:28:20 AM PST by Condor51 (Yo Hoffa, so you want to 'take out conservatives'. Well okay Jr - I'm your Huckleberry)
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