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Ringleader in Tennessee Couple's Rape and Murder Convicted, May Get Death Penalty
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. —
| Quote: | The man accused of being the ringleader of a carjacking that turned into the rapes and murders of a Tennessee couple was convicted of the most serious charges and now faces the death penalty.
The jury, which deliberated a little more than 8 hours before returning the verdict against Lemaricus Davidson, 28, Tuesday was hearing evidence Wednesday on whether to sentence him to death.
Davidson was tried on 38 counts, including premeditated murder, felony murder, robbery, kidnapping, rape and theft in the 2007 deaths of University of Tennessee student Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23.
The only not guilty findings were on three counts relating to the rape of Newsom, and Davidson was found guilty of the lesser crime of facilitation on those counts.
Davidson showed no emotion as he heard the jury's verdict. Newsom's family followed the readings closely but showed little reaction, while Christian's father rocked back and forth and occasionally pumped his fist as guilty verdicts were announced.
Prosecutors contended Davidson was the ringleader in the attack. The defense portrayed him as a drug dealer and bystander to the crimes but not the killer.
The prosecution presented six days of testimony that linked Davidson to the crime through DNA evidence from semen on Christian's body and fingerprints in her vehicle, on her paycheck stub and on the trash bag where her body was found.
Jurors saw a videotape of police questioning Davidson in which he blamed the murders on others. "Selling dope, that's what I do. I don't kill people."
Christian and Newsom were carjacked by several gun-wielding men during a Saturday night date as they left a friend's apartment. They were taken to Davidson's rental house, beaten, raped and killed over several hours.
A few days later, his naked, bound and shot body was found partially burned along some railroad tracks. Hers was found hog-tied and stuffed in a trash can in Davidson's house. She suffocated in the trash can.
Davidson, who moved to Knoxville after serving a prison sentence for carjacking in western Tennessee, was arrested within days in an abandoned house 10 minutes from the crime scene. Police found Newsom's silver athletic shoes in the house and a .22-caliber pistol.
The bullets were the same type that killed Newsom with an execution-style shot to the head, but forensic experts cannot say the pistol was the murder weapon, Eldridge said.
Davidson's brother Letalvis Cobbins was convicted in August of murder and related counts and sentenced to life in prison without parole. He testified during his trial that he participated in the carjacking and raped Christian but claimed he was going along with the crime out of fear of Davidson.
Another conspirator, Eric Boyd, was convicted in federal court of being an accessory after the fact and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Two others, George Thomas and Vanessa Coleman, of Lebanon, Ky., are awaiting trial in state court on murder and related counts. |
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Dan
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Can you imagine the media outrage if this had been a skinhead that raped and murdered a promising young black couple? Nationally, this story isn't even a blip. Amazing.
Really there's no death penalty necessary. Just ship him to NECX and the skinheads there will deal with him.
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CHICAGO – Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.
The analysis is in line with other recent research suggesting that more than 40 percent of U.S. children will live in poverty or near-poverty by age 17; and that half will live at some point in a single-parent family. Also, other researchers have estimated that slightly more than half of adults will use food stamps at some point by age 65.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_he_me/us_med_children_food_stamps
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Arkansas TV Anchorwoman's Killer Sentenced to Life in Prison
Thursday , November 12, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. —
| Quote: | A jury sentenced a man to life in prison Thursday for the beating death of a popular Arkansas television personality, sparing him the death penalty after hearing testimony about his rocky upbringing by an abusive, drug-addicted mother.
Jurors deliberated less than three hours before recommending that Curtis Lavelle Vance, 29, be sentenced to life in prison without parole for the death of Anne Pressly. They also handed down a life sentence for rape, 20 years for burglary and 10 years for theft.
Pressly, 26, was an anchor on KATV's "Daybreak" program and had a bit part in the President George W. Bush biopic "W." She died Oct. 25, 2008, five days after a brutal assault that crushed her face and left her gasping for air.
Vance's mother testified Thursday that she was abusive, and a doctor said Vance showed signs of paranoia. Pressly's mother, Patti Cannady, told jurors Wednesday what it was like to lose an only child.
After the verdict was read, Cannady mouthed "It's OK" to prosecutor Larry Jegley, nodded, and tucked her hands over her heart. But as she left the courtroom, Cannady stopped and turned at the door. She leaned toward the defense attorneys and said, "You protected someone who should have never been protected."
Vance, who had appeared uncomfortable during much of his mother's testimony, showed no emotion as the sentence was read.
Jacqueline Vance Burnett had told jurors she was an abusive mother who had a number of crack-fueled run-ins with the law.
Burnett said she worked as a prostitute to earn money for drugs and once snapped after a "date" fell through. She said Vance had been left in charge of a younger brother and that when she returned, the brother was smearing feces on a wall. Burnett said she threw Vance into a brick wall several times until he nearly passed out.
She also told jurors she would buy drugs with money her children received from Social Security after their fathers died and that she had spent time in prison for burglary, forgery and theft.
Burnett said she has since gone through rehab and she apologized to Vance from the witness stand for throwing him against the wall. He mumbled something, then said "I love you, momma."
During closing arguments, prosecutor Larry Jegley called Vance's upbringing "an American tragedy," but he noted that siblings and other family members have led successful lives and said Vance's situation was a result of his own choices.
"Do I like it? No," Jegley said after the sentence was read. "But they can consider all of them. That's the law."
Defense lawyer Katherine Streett had urged jurors — who had convicted Vance a day earlier of capital murder, rape, burglary and theft of property — to have the "courage" to not impose the death penalty.
"The decision you're about to make may speak as much about you as it does about Curtis Vance," Streett said. If mitigation in this case ... has any meaning to you in a significant way, you do not have to kill him," Streett said.
Vance's attorneys did not comment after the sentence.
Another brother, B.J. Montgomery of Little Rock, testified that Vance played with him, made sure he did his homework and protected him from their mother. At times Vance would cook for the rest of the family, Montgomery said. "That's my brother, and I love him," he said.
Vance's girlfriend, Sheanika Cooper, said he often spoiled their three children, two girls and a boy.
A psychiatrist had told jurors Vance showed signs of paranoia and compared the man's brain to a car with bad wiring.
"Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't," said Dr. Shawn Agharkar, who teaches at Morehouse and Emory universities. |
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| Quote: | | She also told jurors she would buy drugs with money her children received from Social Security after their fathers died and that she had spent time in prison for burglary, forgery and theft. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._(film)
How ironic, she takes part in a Bush bashing film so was probably a liberal which most of the media is and gets killed by a product of libtardism. No way in hell should his mother had custody of her children, she should have been forced to pay the government child support or thrown in jail if she didn't pay and the kids put in a boarding school type place or foster care.
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RC
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Well, I believe in an eye for an eye. Too bad the people who recommended life in prison for him, wont have to foot the entire bill themselves.
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It costs more to condemn somebody to death than life in prison, so from just a fiscal point of view, life is a better choice. Then there is the poor quality of many trials to consider. Many have eventually been found not guilty after trials that ended otherwise and for some, it came too late.
You could also make a good case that life in prison is a worse punishment. |
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| Lars wrote: | It costs more to condemn somebody to death than life in prison, so from just a fiscal point of view, life is a better choice. Then there is the poor quality of many trials to consider. Many have eventually been found not guilty after trials that ended otherwise and for some, it came too late.
You could also make a good case that life in prison is a worse punishment. |
They've been found not guilty, in the vast majority of cases, because of current DNA technology that wasn't available when they were tried. That is no longer an issue.
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| Which of course makes all the other "evidence" rather suspect. It is still a flawed system. Especially when it relies on human observations. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Lars wrote: | It costs more to condemn somebody to death than life in prison, so from just a fiscal point of view, life is a better choice. Then there is the poor quality of many trials to consider. Many have eventually been found not guilty after trials that ended otherwise and for some, it came too late.
You could also make a good case that life in prison is a worse punishment. |
As much as it pains me,I agree with the Swede. 
I also think Death Row should be eliminated, General Pop.would be fitting.
Living in fear should be part of the punishment, that single room ain't right.
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actually this is why I'm a firm believer in a CCW.
if he'd a been armed he just might have lived to be judged by his piers. an prolly would have gotten a medal.
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if he'd a been armed he just might have lived to be judged by his piers. an prolly would have gotten a medal. |
No, most likely he would have been prosecuted for murder, then the FEDS would have come in with the usual civil rights violations.
They are a protected species and the public victims. |
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| Not to mention, then Sharpton, Jackson, et all, would be calling it a hate crime against negroes... Oh sorry, they prefer African American now, even though none of them have been to Africa for more than anything but a press junket... |
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