Conclusion of First Knoxville Horror Trial Shows Legal System Under Stress

By Nicholas Stix

[Previously by Nicholas Stix: The
Knoxville Horror: Crime, Race, the Media, and “Anti-Racism”]

In the first Knoxville Horror trial in April, Eric Dewayne “E” Boyd was convicted by a federal jury in Knoxville, Tennessee, of being an accessory after the fact to carjacking. Recently, on October 15, U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan sentenced Boyd to 18 years in prison, the maximum possible sentence, which federal prosecutors had sought.

The carjacking was the first in a chain of crimes, including kidnapping, assault, theft, multiple forms of
gang rape, torture, murder and corpse desecration committed in Knoxville on January 7, 2007, variously against Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend,
Christopher Newsom, 23, that U.S Attorney James R. Dedrick recently called “one of, if not the most, horrendous crimes ever committed in Knoxville, Tennessee.”

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