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Old January 22nd, 2008 #1
Jimmy Dean
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Trial Delayed For Carjacking Suspect
Carjacking! & would running down some pedestrian
be failure to yield right of way?

knoxnews.com
Knoxville TN
Saturday, January 19, 2008

A federal judge Friday delayed the trial of a man accused as an accessory to a fatal carjacking after the suspect's attorney complained he was being forced to probe a double slaying he insists his client had no hand in.

"E" Boyd
Eric Dewayne "E" Boyd was set to be tried in U.S. District Court beginning Feb. 4 on charges he helped Lemaricus "Slim" Davidson hide from police in the days following the slaying last year of University of Tennessee student Channon Christian and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom.
"Slim" Davidson

Davidson and three others are charged in Knox County Criminal Court with kidnapping, torturing, raping and killing Christian and Newsom in January 2006 after what began as a carjacking.

Boyd is not charged in either the carjacking or the slayings. However, Assistant U.S. Attorneys David Jennings and Tracy Stone have said that in order to convince jurors Boyd is guilty of being an accessory to those crimes, they first must prove Davidson was involved in the fatal carjacking....

....Davidson's alleged co-horts in the slaying, including his brother, have actually implicated Boyd in the killings in statements to authorities. Defense Attorney A. Philip Lomonaco insists in court records, however, that Boyd "never laid eyes on either Channon Christian or Christopher Newsom."

Dfn Att Lomanaco

Boyd is a serial robber who authorities said had been involved in a string of robberies with Davidson and his alleged co-horts in the days before Christian and Newsom, on their way home from a date, were attacked.

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