War crime victims Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, were gang-raped, tortured and murdered by as many as seven racist blacks
[Previously, at WEJB/NSU: “The Baumgartner Affair and the Knoxville Horror: It Gets Worse All the Time”; and
“The Knoxville Horror: A Reading List on the Racist Atrocity that the MSM and Wikipedia Don’t Want You to Learn About.”]
By David in TN
Judge Richard Baumgartner
Former Knox County Superior Court Judge Richard Baumgartner has died at age 70. He presided over the original four Knoxville Horror Trials. I saw him at the first Vanessa Coleman trial in 2010. Baumgartner sometimes fell asleep during testimony, and didn't look healthy.
He was very much in charge, however. The thinking was Judge Baumgartner wanted to be over the Christian-Newsom trials despite being in such pain that during the Davidson trial, that he was getting drugs from a probationer in his court. If that wasn't enough, Baumgatner was having a sexual relationship with this woman.
Because of Baumgarner's feckless behavior, two of the trials had to be retried.
Judge Baumgartner’s probationer, lover, and drug supplier, Deena Castleman has been charged with drug crimes and prostitution, which tend to go together, over the years
At WATE.
N.S.: The subversion of justice to which I alluded in the headline, was in Baumgartner’s shipping in alternate jurors from Davidson County, Tennessee, under the pretext of Knox County jurors being biased against the defendants. However, what Baumgartner was really up to, was sabotage. If jurors had been chosen from an over 90% white county, like Knox County, where the atrocity had been committed, there was a serious danger of justice being meted out to the monstrous, racist, rapist-killers. Justice required nothing less than the death penalty.
Baumgartner understood that all too well, and had jurors brought in from a county with a black proportion three times that of Knox County. That’s why I dubbed him, “Judge Mischief.”
The only killer whose jury meted out justice to him was Lemaricus Davidson. That was because Davidson refused Baumgartner’s help, and foolishly demanded that he be tried by a Knox County jury, which duly sentenced him to death.
Davidson has yet to be executed, but at least the possibility of justice obtains in his case.
Special Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood went even beyond Baumgartner’s corruption, in ruling that all four state trials had to be repeated, and in insisting that for Davidson’s retrial, he would bus a jury in from Nashville/Davidson County.
Judge Blackwood’s misconduct was so outrageous that Knox County Deputy Attorney General Randy Nichols went over his head, appealing to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
The TSC overruled Blackwood, ruling that only two of the four state defendants, Vanessa Coleman and George Thomas, had a right to a new trial. Both were convicted the second time around, but with less time, especially Coleman.
The five known war criminals responsible for the violation and murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
Only three of the monsters who raped, tortured, and murdered Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were convicted of murder, and only one, Lemaricus Davidson, has been sentenced to death. Davidson’s half-brother, Letalvis Cobbins, and George Thomas have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Cowardly white jurors and racist black ones conspired to convict Cobbins’ unrepentant girlfriend, Vanessa Coleman, only of “facilitation of murder and rape.” Eric Boyd, whom prosecutors are convinced participated in the kidnappings, rapes (of Christophe Newsom, at any rate), and murders, never made any self-incriminating statements, or left any hard, self-incriminating evidence, and was convicted only of being an accessory after the fact, in aiding and abetting Davidson, in the latter’s flight. Two more black male rapist-killers are known only via the semen they left in Channon Christian’s panties.
