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By David in TN
Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 10:51:00 P.M. EDT
In something of a surprise, as it goes against the way things have been done in the Knoxville Horror trials, Knox County Criminal Court Judge Bob McGee denied a motion for change of venue, and ruled Eric Boyd will be tried for the murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knox County, Tennessee, by a Knox County jury.
By David in TN
Thu, Jun 27, 2019 2:59 p.m.
Knox County Jury?
Jamie tweets that the Judge ruled Boyd's trial will be in Knoxville and they will attempt to select a jury from Knox County.
A full story later.
By David in TN
Thu, Jun 27, 2019 10:45 p.m.
Motion for venue change in Christian-Newsom murders denied, case to be heard in Knox County
By R.C.
Thu, Jun 27, 2019 9:17 p.m.
NEGRO Homeowner who has been identified as "person of interest" in case of the missing Utah student who boasted she was a "sugar baby" is a former Army IT specialist, 31, who gave away mattress and box spring that police are trying to find
Last known images of Mackenzie Lueck released by police
Ayoola 'AJ' Ajayi, 31, listed a mattress and box spring for free on LetGo five days ago in Salt Lake City. Police are now hunting for the items as part of their case into missing person Mackenzie Lueck.
www.dailymail.co.uk
By A Friend
Thu, Jun 27, 2019 4:24 p.m.
Dalai Lama warns "keep Europe for Europeans" as he calls for 'Muslim and African' migrants to be returned home
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9389672/dalai-lama-keep-europe-muslim-african-migrants-sent-home/
By A Colleague
The Social Contract Press is mentioned here in connection with Kris Kobach, the SPLC, and the Republican National Committee.
N.S.: The Social Contract Press is one of my publishers.
By Ann Coulter
June 26, 2019
Anncoulter.com
Everyone else wants the names of the FBI officials who approved the unprecedented law enforcement dragnet against low-level Trump aides in the middle of a presidential campaign.
I want the names of the staffers at the Republican National Committee who prepared Trump’s “backgrounders” on potential hires for the new administration. (I’m not interested in finding out who leaked them because I assume it was the Russians.)
When America is no more, future generations are going to want to know who murdered our country .
Below is a random selection of the idiotic quotes from the RNC’s vetting document on Kris Kobach, when President Trump was considering him for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Instead of Kobach, who could have saved the country, Trump appointed a series of imbeciles, who managed to engineer the worst immigration crisis in the nation’s history.
If this cretinous document had anything to do with Kobach being passed over, then there are specific people whose names we’re going to need.
QUOTE:
“Immigration Hardliner”
The RNC seems to think “hardliner” means: “supports current federal law, on the books, passed over generations by Republicans and Democrats, negotiating compromises and getting their bills signed into law by a series of presidents in both political parties.”
QUOTE:
“Would you ever allow your support of policies that ‘strengthen’ immigration enforcement (to) conflict with bipartisan compromise legislation negotiated by a Trump administration?”
Who wrote this question? John McCain? Jeb!?
Even after Trump won, the RNC proceeded as if nothing had happened and their goal was to pass a new Gang of Eight “Comprehensive Immigration” bill. They wanted Kobach to swear fidelity to a policy that had just been soundly rejected by the voters and their own party.
QUOTE:
“Given your history of campaigning on immigration politics, do you believe you have an ability to strike the appropriate tone ...?”
Tone! Democrats routinely call Republicans racists, liars, warmongers, homophobes, haters, rapists, etc., but somehow only conservatives are ever accused of having a “tone” problem.
Again, the RNC seems sublimely unaware of the entire 2016 election. Trump called Mexican immigrants rapists and won. But the RNC is worried about an erudite Midwesterner’s “tone.”
How’s this tone? F--- you, RNC.
QUOTE:
“Kobach is credited with helping draft the controversial immigration law allowing Arizona state and local officials to check the immigration status of individuals they stopped ...”
“Controversial” is what idiots say when they don’t have a real complaint.
I can’t be sure about all of them, but by my count, at least 300 of the 400 members of the current Democratic presidential field support slavery reparations, Medicare for all, free college tuition, eliminating I.C.E., transgenders in women’s bathrooms, abortion at 8.9 months, flinging open our borders and providing free dental care to illegals.
But according to the RNC, supporting immigration laws currently on the books is “controversial.”
I note that it wasn’t “controversial” at the Supreme Court.
QUOTE:
“... (much of the law was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2012).”
The morons at the RNC aren’t even familiar with the landmark Supreme Court ruling they’re citing to bash Kobach.
Dear Useless, Incompetent Twits: The law -- I mean, the “controversial” law -- “allowing Arizona state and local officials to check the immigration status of individuals they stopped” ... was UPHELD BY A UNANIMOUS SUPREME COURT. (Other parts of the law, not mentioned by the RNC or anyone else, were struck down by a divided court with dissents from Trump’s favorite justices: Scalia, Alito and Thomas.)
The RNC: “Much of the law Was Struck Down by the Supreme Court in 2012.”
The New York Times: “Court Splits Immigration Law Verdicts; Upholds Hotly Debated Centerpiece, 8-0.”
I’m sure any person of reasonable intelligence could confuse “unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court” with “struck down by the Supreme Court.”
QUOTE:
“Background: Kobach has advocated for use of a technicality within the Patriot Act, that would potentially force Mexico to ‘pay for the wall’ by holding hostage the millions of dollars that Mexican nationals in the U.S. send home to family each year.”
Holding hostage? It’s known as the Treasury Department’s taxing authority.
Idea for the RNC’s next policy paper: “The Trump administration advocates for use of a technicality within the law that would potentially force taxpayers to pay for government services by holding hostage trillions of dollars that Americans spend on their families each year.”
The Kobach “backgrounder” is the equivalent of me writing the vetting documents for the Obama administration.
QUOTE:
“CONTROVERSIES: Kobach Faced Criticism for Speaking at What Some Called a 'White Nationalist' Conference."
Holy moly! That's a blockbuster! I’ve followed Kobach’s career for years, and I’m floored that the Harvard/Yale/Oxford graduate is consorting with “white supremacists.”
Oh wait, I see. Here’s the RNC’s evidence:
QUOTE:
“Kobach was a presenter at a writers workshop last week for The Social Contract Press, a publishing house that the Southern Poverty Law Center includes on its list of hate groups under the category ‘anti-immigrant.’”
Anyone -- in media, in politics, in casual conversation around the water cooler, certainly anyone at the RNC! -- who cites the SPLC as anything other than “America’s Leading Hate Group” needs to have his head examined. This is on the order of the NAACP using KKK literature to evaluate job applicants.
The RNC vetters are too stupid not to bury the SPLC’s specific claim: that The Social Contract Press is guilty of being “anti-immigrant.” I know the RNC hated Trump, but the only reason the RNC even has a Republican president right now is that a plurality of Americans want less immigration, too.
QUOTE:
“During the Campaign, Kobach’s Opponent Tied Him to White Supremacists Groups.”
Again with the “white supremacist groups”!
Guess who this time? Guess! FAIR -- the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group concerned with ... yes, that would be the principal assignment of department for which Kobach was being considered: IMMIGRATION.
In fact, FAIR is a little namby-pamby on immigration, certainly compared to, for example, the Angel Moms, Bernie Sanders circa 2016, or -- I don’t know -- THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. If FAIR is a “white supremacist group,” then Trump is the Grand Wizard of the KKK.
Who at the RNC wrote this document? I want their names and I want them killed. (Or forced to watch the Democratic debates -- their choice.)
More likely, the nitwit responsible for this Swamp Manifesto will be appointed Trump's new DHS Secretary.
By "W"
Thu, Jun 27, 2019 12:32 pm
Mother of the year
Notice that her mom/parents named her Lexus. They know a great brand.
By David in TN
Eric Boyd: Knox County jurors too bloodthirsty to be fair in Christian/Newsom case
Jamie Satterfield, Knoxville News Sentinel Published 5:00 a.m. ET June 26, 2019 | Updated 5:34 a.m. ET June 26, 2019
Eric Dewayne Boyd says Knox Countians are too bloodthirsty to give him a fair trial in the now 12-year-old case of a young couple carjacked, kidnapped, raped, tortured and slain.
Boyd, 47, is set to stand trial in August in Knox County Criminal Court in the 2007 slayings of Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23.
Boyd’s attorney, Clinton Frazier, this week will try to convince Judge Bob McGee that potential jurors in Knox County have been fed a “steady diet of media coverage” since the couple was found slain and have grown increasingly vengeful in the 12 years since.
“This case has drawn more ‘excitement’ against the parties, witnesses and participants than any other case in modern history,” Frazier wrote in a motion filed earlier this month.
He wants McGee to either move the entire trial out of Knox County or choose a pool of jurors from another locale and bus them back to Knox County for the trial. Prosecutors oppose the move.
Slayings spur fear, outrage
Christian and Newsom were heading out on a date in January 2007 when they were confronted at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Washington Ridge apartment complex in Northeast Knoxville and forced into Christian’s vehicle.The couple were bound, gagged and blindfolded and taken to the Chipman Street home of Lemaricus Davidson — Boyd’s pal and occasional robbery partner, according to prior testimony. Christian was held captive inside the house for hours — repeatedly raped, beaten, had bleach poured down her throat to destroy DNA evidence, was wrapped in trash bags and stuffed alive inside a trash can, where she slowly suffocated.
Newsom was raped with an object and later forced to walk barefoot to nearby railroad tracks, where he was fatally shot execution-style and his body — wrapped in a comforter from Davidson’s house — set afire in another bid to destroy DNA evidence.
Christian and Newsom were strangers to their killers, and the case sparked fear and outrage in the community and drew the attention of racist hate groups from outside the community.
Boyd was the first suspect to be arrested in the case, charged federally with hiding out Davidson in the days following the slayings, and the first to stand trial.
Parents press for charges
Although Boyd was charged with harboring a fugitive, federal prosecutors David Jennings and Tracy Stone presented evidence suggesting Boyd didn’t just hide out Davidson but helped carry out the couple’s kidnapping, raped Newsom and took part in his killing.
Boyd was convicted of harboring and sentenced to 18 years.
When the Knox County District Attorney General’s office next sought murder charges in the case from a Knox County grand jury, Boyd’s name wasn’t on the resulting presentment, though.
Instead, Davidson and three others — Davidson’s brother, Letalvis Cobbins; Cobbins’ girlfriend, Vanessa Coleman; and Cobbins’ friend, George Thomas — were charged and each tried separately.
With the ink still wet on their respective convictions, the judge presiding over those trials — the late Richard Baumgartner — wound up in trouble himself for addiction-related crimes. Thomas and Coleman were awarded new trials.
Thomas was again convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life terms, ensuring he will never go free alive. Coleman was convicted of lesser charges and was sentenced to 35 years.
Newsom’s parents, Hugh and Mary Newsom, continued to push state prosecutors to charge Boyd, enlisted the help of a retired investigator to reexamine evidence and even met with Cobbins behind bars in hopes he would testify against Boyd. He refused — without a deal setting him free.
Gary Christian: From rage to restoration, a murder victim's father finds the faith he left 'Steady diet of media coverage'
Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen, who had inherited the case from her predecessor, finally sought murder charges against Boyd last year.
Frazier contends Knox County residents have intently followed every arrest, every trial and every news story about the case throughout that 12-year history.
“On Jan. 7, 2007, a horrendous crime was committed,” he wrote. “With the discovery of Christopher Newsom’s body, the citizens of Knox County began to consume the steady diet of media coverage that would be served dutifully for the next 12 years.
“They sat attentive to the sickening facts of the crime as the details emerged and were reported on,” Frazier continued in his motion. “They followed the search, apprehensions, trials, convictions and sentencings of the killers … At each ugly stage of the proceedings, the media were present and ensured that every detail was reported.”
Eric Boyd is led out of the courtroom following a hearing in Knox County Criminal Court in Knoxville on Thursday, April 18, 2019.
Frazier insists it would be a grave injustice to force Boyd to face a jury box filled with those same Knox County residents. His argument mirrors that advanced by co-defendants Cobbins, Thomas and Coleman. In each of their cases, a judge decided to pick juries from outside Knox County and bus them to Knox County Criminal Court for trial — known as a “change of venire” in legal parlance.
Davidson specifically sought a pool of Knox County jurors in what his attorney would later say was a strategic decision made in hopes of garnering a delay if no jury could be seated. The move backfired. A jury of Knox Countians who insisted they could be fair was seated and ultimately sentenced Davidson to die.
State prosecutors, though, say Davidson’s case is proof a jury free of bias can be seated in Knox County.
“While (Boyd’s) is not a capital trial, it is significant to note that a Knox County jury was seated in the capital trial of co-defendant Lemaricus Davidson,” prosecutors TaKisha Fitzgerald and Phil Morton wrote in a response to Frazier’s motion.
McGee will hold a hearing on Frazier’s motion, as well as other pending motions in the case, on Thursday.
More: Christian-Newsom murders: Coverage over the years
Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
Recording from during the Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Mets-Phillies Game
By R.C.
Wed, Jun 26, 2019 9:40 p.m.
EXCLUSIVE: Missing University of Utah nursing student, 23, boasted she was a SUGAR BABY who had two sugar daddies and sought out men over 35 on Seeking Arrangement and Tinder
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7185285/Missing-University-Utah-student-Mackenzie-Lueck-sugar-baby-sought-men-35.html
Police share last known footage of missing Utah student
Mackenzie Lueck , 23, vanished on June 17 after she ordered a Lyft from the Salt Lake City airport. DailyMail.com can reveal that Lueck is a self-proclaimed sugar baby, seeking men 35 and up.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Wed, Jun 26, 2019 9:42 p.m.
When Beronica Ruiz went to pick up her 12-year-old son from school in Passaic, New Jersey, last week, it wasn't the first time that day she needed to be there. Hours earlier, Ruiz and her husband had met with the school's vice principal over concerns that
Beronica Ruiz beaten by 13-year-old she'd reported for racist taunts against her son, attorney says - The Washington Post
When Beronica Ruiz went to pick up her 12-year-old son from school in Passaic, N.J., last week, it wasn't the first time that day she needed to be there. Hours earlier, Ruiz and her husband had ...
www.sfgate.com
Wed, Jun 26, 2019 9:54 p.m.
Deputies have arrested a suspect in the murder of an 11-year-old boy who was shot and killed while sleeping in his home in Channelview. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said 21-year-old Sonnie Reyes was arrested on Wednesday.
| | CHANNELVIEW, Texas (KTRK) -- Deputies have arrested a suspect in the murder of an 11-year-old boy who was shot and killed while sleeping in his home in Channelview. The Harris County Sheriff's ...
abc13.com
Wed, Jun 26, 2019 10:46 p.m.
Doctor's killing comes amid week-long murder spike in Belize
They have been promoting Belize as a place to vacation and a place to retire to. I knew a retired builder-contractor from British Columbia who tried it. Awful experience. He wrote a booklet about the dusky dysfunctional, crime ridden place. Paul Fromm published it years ago.
PS: Nicholas: just finished watching the final couple of innings of the Mets-Phils game. That bull-pen again….
https://nypost.com/2019/06/26/doctor-one-of-several-people-killed-during-week-long-bloodbath-in-belize/
By A Texas Reader
Wed, Jun 26, 2019 10:18 p.m.
Grim Photo of Father-Daughter Border Drowning Highlights Migrants' Perils
| | The man and his 23-month-old daughter lay face down in shallow water along the bank of the Rio Grande, his black shirt hiked up to his chest with the girl tucked inside. Her arm was draped around his neck... www.nbcdfw.com |
ATR: What's up with the family photo?
I see balloons in the background and 3 healthy individuals. The mother is even wearing lipstick.
I even see an audio speaker behind the young mother.
Appears to be plenty of wealth in the photo, at least compared to the billions on the globe who really do live in grinding poverty.
So, why did they leave El Salvador?
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