Posted on 04/16/2008 5:36:09 AM PDT by Travis McGee
One other possibility. They could have went to what is called The Old City a restored part of Downtown to eat. It’s a popular place to go to and several best in town resturants are there. If they were headed to the mall and took Cherry Street or some back roads to get over to Millertown Pike {a short cut} that too would have placed them actually in or very near that neighborhood. The Old City area used to have a real bad name until it was finally re-developed.
Something interesting. The defense lawyers tried to say the female victim was forced to shoot her boyfriend by one of the thugs. Her dad was on TV last night and said that she had been trained since age 16 to shoot. IOW he said if she would have been handed the pistol they would still be alive and the perps dead. He was highly upset over it and I sure don't blame him.
These were just “typical bitter black folks” of the type that frightened Obama’s grand mama.....
The fact this most horrific crime didn’t reach the nation’s attention to the degree it should have, proves the media’s “if it bleeds it leads” ground rule -— applies ONLY when it fits THEIR agenda.
The HORRIFIC facts of this crime are known only to the tiniest segment of society who get their news from “alternate” or “local” sources.
Compare the notoriety of this REAL crime of a racist rape AND murder, to the false rape claim against the Duke Lacrosse players... Quite different - huh? Why?????
You KNOW why!
Sadly, the feral bastards who committed this crime are far more prevalent in our cities and prisons that anyone wishes to admit..
It also points out, that in support of the complaints from Jackson and Sharpton of too many blacks in prison, there clearly are not enough being executed.
Much of the original story turned out to be incorrect. For example, some websites said their bodies had been mutilated. That turned out not to be true but the real story is almost worse. The violent sexual assaults and beating against the girl went on for hours. That the national “news” media have not said one word about this current trial is a travesty. There can be only one reason for it.
As far as how those poor kids got victimized, there is NO evidence whatever they were looking for drugs. Some morons who are sympathetic to the killers try to say they were. But they were wonderful kids by all accounts. No drugs were found in their systems. Apparently the girl was visiting her friend at an apartment complex. The boyfriend came to pick her up that night and they were together in her car. The scumbags came to that building supposedly to give money to a resident there to whom they owed money. But this accessory to carjacking who is on trial today says they needed a car, so they just busted into the car where the kids were kissing, and forced them to drive to that house of horrors where they were raped and killed. My blood is boiling just writing about it.
In any case, if they just needed a car, or money (of which they took NONE,) apparently they just committed these horrible atrocities against the victims out of pure evil and cruelty.
Not just today, its always been true.
These days however, feral humans have not only lost the fear of God, but the citizenry has been radically disarmed, which lessened the fear of armed victims as well...
LFOD...
Jury seeks clarity on how involved Boyd had to be
By Jamie Satterfield
Originally published 12:56 p.m., April 16, 2008
Updated 12:56 p.m., April 16, 2008
Continuing coverage in the Newsom/Christian double-murder case
A grammatical conjunction has jurors in the trial of accused accessory to carjacking Eric Dewayne "E" Boyd asking for clarification this afternoon.
Jurors just before noon sent a question to U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan pointing out Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Stone's closing argument, in which Stone noted that the indictment against Boyd uses the word "and" in its list of acts Boyd is accused of committing.
Stone told jurors that the conjunction ought to be "or" because jurors need only find that Boyd either assisted or aided or comforted Lemaricus "Slim" Davidson, the alleged ringleader in the carjacking, torture and slaying of Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, 23, in January 2007.
Jurors asked Varlan, "Is it and, or is it or?"
Stone told Varlan that the indictment uses the word "and" because it is a document used to put Boyd on notice of the charges he faces, whereas jurors must look to the law itself to determine whether Boyd violated it, and the law in question uses the word "or."
It may sound like grammatical minutiae, but the distinction is significant because the word "and" might cause jurors to believe the government must prove Boyd took several steps to help Davidson, as opposed to simply an act or two.
In essence, the conjunction could either increase or decrease the amount of proof jurors need to reach a decision.
Defense attorney Phil Lomonaco is arguing that the government wrote the indictment and has to live with its wording.
"It was superseded two times and they continued to use that language," Lomonaco said. "I don't think they should get any aid from the court."
Varlan is on a recess now deciding how to instruct the jury, which began deliberations at 9:30 a.m.
Among questions jurors face: What did Boyd know about the carjacking turned torture slayings of a young Knox County couple, when did he know about it, and what did he do about it? SNIP
I didn’t know that. Too bad she didn’t have a pistol, law or not.
I don’t think Nancy Grace or any of the other TV true crime touts have ever mentioned this case.
Wrong template. Mustn’t stir up anger. Better this one under the rug...
the "why" of the crime is purely, simply, that there are savage animals on our streets.....
there is no excuse ....
most people know this......we can't speak about it openly, because it would be "racist" but we all know who to stay away from and where not to go....
as far as prisons go, there are too many people in prison but the really sad part is they belong there.....a lot more belong there too...
when Jessie the "the brain" Jackson starts talking about too many blacks in prison, he's right only in that too many black men are animals....
crime in America must be sanitized....
Late word around 3:30 pm ET. Boyd found GUILTY on 2 counts of being an accessory to carjacking. If society is lucky he will get 15 years. Kind of a long time for a guy who’s only 34. No more living with his mom and spending care free days smoking marijuana for a while now. Too bad there can’t be real justice though. Maybe we could send him a lot of fatty foods in prison and hope he dies young! I got that last line of course from the wretched “journalist” Julianne Malveaux, as she wished this fate on Justice Thomas.
Hard to find any joy in this. The parents of those dead kids will have to live with their agony for the rest of their earthly lives. But at least for now some small justice has been done.
If it doesn’t fit the liberal MSM PC template, it didn’t happen.
It’s got to be one of the most horrible crimes in modern history yet they are silent. Apologists for the media and the PC left say “but CNN did do a story!” Yes, 11 months ago, and 4 months after the crime, and probably because of pressure from bloggers and irate viewers.
This Boyd trial had everything the cable nets usually would want to cover. Twists and turns, intrigue, shocking revelations, and questions about the guilt of people on the stand and others who gave testimony. Next year’s trials of the rapist/murderers might be a bit more open and shut but maybe not. In any case I expect “them” to remain silent again. Just imagine if the circumstances were different though....
Normally when a pretty blonde is murdered, Nancy and Greta are all over it, as in frequent flier points to Aruba.
But only if the alleged perps are white too.
Black on white crime? “Don’t go there!”
Excuse me?
This is a federal conviction which means state parole board politics is out of it and IIRC he'll being doing most if not all of the time sentenced. Federal appeals are also harder to come by meaning maybe it will stick. I didn't think he would get a Not Guilty around here Knoxville isn't Memphis meaning it's far more Conservative.
The parents will never get over it. I hope him and his other animal friends see their two faces nightly coming after them tormenting their ever minute they try to rest. These murderers are no better than Manson and in some ways even worse.
Since I have been going to the Knoxnews site for info about the Jan ‘07 atrocity I have been reading about some of the other crime in that area and there seems to be an awful lot of it. Those other situations you mentioned also were awful.
So far half way into the Nancy Grace show all she is talking about are these polygamist sect people. Give it a break, I say. Then on the CNN crime site there is zip about the Knoxville case. They mention plenty of other gruesome crimes but not that one. Not PC enough for them I guess.
The family killed was named Lillelid. A husband, wife, daughter, and son, all shot. Only the young boy survived it. A senseless cold blooded killing 11 years ago by some gothics. The family had been to a church function {Jehovah Witness Convention?} I think out of town and were headed back home to Knoxville. They stopped at a rest area and were approached by the kids and taken to a side road. The story is the Lillelid’s had one thing in mind and the killers quite another. I can’t find the killers pictures now but it would give you the creeps.
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