Why The Newsom/Christian Murder IS NOT Like The Trayvonn Martin Murder
I keep hearing about two murders that the right wing are using to say: The media is biased against black perpetrators and white victims because the media didn’t bring a lot of light to the murder of Christopher Lane (2013) and Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian both murdered in 2007. Results: Of the four charged at the state level, three (Letalvis D. Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, and George Thomas) had multiple prior felony convictions. After a jury trial, Lemaricus Davidson was sentenced to death by lethal injection and Letalvis Cobbins and George Thomas were sentenced to life in prison, Cobbins without the possibility of parole and Thomas with the possibility. Vanessa Coleman has been convicted of facilitating the crimes and sentenced to 53 years in prison, and Eric Dewayne Boyd has been convicted of federal charges as accessory after the fact to carjacking and sentenced to 18 years in prison. [4] The state convictions were set aside because of misconduct by the...