[Previously, at WEJB/NSU: “Torture Slaying Suspect George Thomas Gets a Sentencing Break to Testify against Eric Boyd (Knoxville Horror News: Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom).”]
By David in TN
Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 4:31:00 P.M. EDT
Here is the account of today's testimony from Knoxville's CBS affiliate.
Eric Boyd’s cousin, Adrienne Mathis, in a previous trial had testified to loaning Boyd the vehicle used in the kidnapping of Christian and Newsom.
Prosecutors sought to introduce Mathis’ previous testimony after she said over and over, “I don’t recall" as to whether she loaned Boyd the car. Judge Bob McGee denied the prosecution’s request.
Mathis didn’t directly contradict earlier testimony, except to claim she was “coached.” It’s probable she was “coached” for today’s appearance.
Earlier, Xavier Jenkins, an employee at the nearby Waste Connections, again testified to seeing the car with a red stripe that Boyd supposedly borrowed. Jenkins testified to seeing four black males in the car. If so, one of them had to be Boyd, placing him at the scene.
Jenkins held firm under cross examination, as he had in the Thomas retrial in 2013.
(Waste Connections was next door to 2316 Chipman Street, aka “the House on Chipman Street,” where Lemaricus Davidson, his half-brother Letalvis Cobbins, George Thomas, Vanessa Coleman, and at least two other, as yet unidentified men raped and tortured Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, and murdered Channon Christian, and near the railroad tracks, where three of the men shot and killed and burned the corpse of Christopher Newsom.
In 2008, Waste Connections bought the House on Chipman Street, had it razed, and erected a memorial to Christian and Newsom.)
Eric Boyd in court; January 3, 2019
1 comment:
They obligatory eyeglasses. They want to make the thug appear owlish and intellectual.
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