TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Mar 30, 2022

The Tennessee Supreme Court this week denied an appeal by Eric Boyd, the fifth and final suspect to be convicted in the 2007 torture slayings of a Knox County couple, Tennessee Lookout reports. Boyd was convicted by a Knox County Criminal Court jury in August 2019 of kidnapping, raping and killing Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. He was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences plus another 90 years for related, underlying crimes. Four others involved in the crime are also in prison. Lemaricus Davidson is on death row, Letalvis Cobbins is serving life without parole and Vanessa Coleman is serving 35 years. George Thomas was originally sentenced to 127 years but agreed in 2018 to testify against Boyd in return for a 50-year sentence.