TN - Chris Newsom, 23, & Channon Christian, 21, murdered, Knoxville, 6 Jan 2007 #18

[SuziQ]

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TK - Coleman's DNA on Channon's bindings. "That's direct evidence"

 

[SuziQ]

VC giving TK gangbanging narrowed eye look.

 

[SuziQ]

TK finished.

 

[SuziQ]

http://twitter.com/jamiescoop

TK - Coleman never promised immunity

 

[MCDRAW]

Ouch - "If Channon were alive today, how would she describe VC?"

I think this is a great point.

 

[PrairieWind]

Well done TK. She is a great trial attorney. A timeline of Vanessa's own statements is pretty damaging stuff. I bet she and Price are ready to get this trial done.

 

[SuziQ]

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It's a wrap folks. Judge giving few more instructions, then sending jury home for night

 

[SuziQ]

I gotta run, I will catch up with y'all later.

 

[lonetraveler]

Dang! My company finally left and I'm back but it looks like I missed the closing arguments. Do any of you know if they will be available to view and hear later?

 

[steelergirl]

Thanks again to everyone for the great reporting on this one. Going to pray hard tonight that the families gets the closure (with the exception of Boyd) that they so greatly deserve.

Lone, I'm pretty sure they had them up for the other trials, try a little later on knox news, they'll probably have them up.

 

[Muffet]

WBIR put them up before, so there is hope. i'd keep an eye on these pages:
Case-related videos at knoxnews:
http://www.knoxnews.com/videos/news/local/channon-christian-christopher-newsom-murders/

At wbir, from this page, or from any other video there, you can search for more videos - "coleman" seems to bring them all up:
http://www.wbir.com/video/default.a...Beat+5/11/44024439001/39627146001/84621635001

 

[Muffet]

I have no idea what this strange jury will do, but I do predict that VC will appeal on grounds of ineffective counsel.

 

[lonetraveler]

WBIR put them up before, so there is hope. i'd keep an eye on these pages:
Case-related videos at knoxnews:
http://www.knoxnews.com/videos/news/local/channon-christian-christopher-newsom-murders/

At wbir, from this page, or from any other video there, you can search for more videos - "coleman" seems to bring them all up:
http://www.wbir.com/video/default.a...Beat+5/11/44024439001/39627146001/84621635001

All of you have been great about letting people like me keep up with this trial. I've been through all of them with the exception of Boyd and I hope to see his murder trial soon. I will check out the videos thanks very much.

 

[PrairieWind]

I have no idea what this strange jury will do, but I do predict that VC will appeal on grounds of ineffective counsel.

Agree on the part about the jury. I have no idea what they will do. We dnt really know who was asking all the strange questions. What is interesting, is the arguement that Price made about how Vanessa facilitated Chris's murder by watching Channon, thus freeing up all the guys to go kill him. That is a good argument. Its just odd that in light of that, the one who has the best evidence against her, is the one that we know didnt got to the tracks.

 

[lonetraveler]

Boy, this judge looks so exhausted. For a second there I thought he was going to lay his head on the bench while reading the instructions.

 

[lonetraveler]

Vanessa seemed nearly cheerful leaving the courtroom.

 

[JulieR]

Ok just my two cents here.......TK rocks she really made headway with the jury and put it all in plain view. I don't think VC will get death, but she will go away for a long time. There is no way they are going to believe she was held against her will, she was there because she wanted to be. Thank you all for keep us up to date on everything.............

 

[JulieR]

Vanessa seemed nearly cheerful leaving the courtroom.

Grrrrrr Well lets see how she looks next time she leaves............

 

[PrairieWind]

I agree Julie. No DP, but certainly will be a very long prison sentence. This was a truely horrific, sadistic crime. None of these defendants seemed to even care, and they all tried to point the finger at someone else. Personally, I have no doubt in my mind that, while this was probably not Vanessas idea in the first place, she did actively participate. And I have no doubts that she was the one that caused that trauma to Channon.

 

[Indianagirl]

Dang! My company finally left and I'm back but it looks like I missed the closing arguments. Do any of you know if they will be available to view and hear later?

I think video of closing arguments will be available on wbir.com later tonight. Last night, they put up the medical examiner's testimony from yesterday. I'll keep checking for you!