Motions Hearing Held in the November Retrial of Vanessa Coleman: A Knoxville Horror Update

By Nicholas Stix on October 24, 2012 at 5:20pm

By David in TN

On Monday, a motions hearing was held in the November retrial of Vanessa Coleman in the January 2007 torture-murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Coleman's attorney, Ted Lavit, wants no mention at all of Christopher Newsom, on the grounds that Coleman was acquitted of all charges regarding Newsom, and of facilitation only in Channon Christian's rape and murder.

The bizarre verdict rendered by the jury in the first trial is the reason for the current scenario. Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood will issue written rulings on whether to admit evidence related to Newsom. The Learned Judge has not revealed where the jury will come from. The trial will be held in Knox County.