Boyd to Request Sentence Leniency
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Jamie Satterfield, Knoxville News Sentinel, October 8, 2008
A serial robber convicted as an accessory to a carjacking-turned-torture slaying wants a sentencing break for leading authorities to the alleged killer he helped hide from police.
In a motion filed by attorney Phil Lomonaco in the run-up to a sentencing hearing next week, Eric Dewayne “E” Boyd is hoping U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan will accept the defense a jury earlier this year rejected and show him leniency as a result.
“Eric Boyd assisted in the apprehension of Lemaricus Davidson, the very person he was accused of aiding and abetting,” Lomonaco wrote in the motion. “Without Eric Boyd’s help, the apprehension of Lemaricus Davidson would not have occurred in anywhere near a timely fashion.”
Lomonaco made a similar argument at Boyd’s April trial on charges he helped Davidson hide from police in the days following the January 2007 slayings of University of Tennessee student Channon Christian, 21, and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, 23. Federal prosecutors David Jennings and Tracy Stone countered that Boyd only led authorities to Davidson after Boyd himself was nabbed as an accessory.
The pair made an even bolder claim about Boyd at trial—he may well have been involved in the carjacking and resulting killings. State prosecutors so far, however, have not added Boyd’s name to the list of four slaying suspects, including Davidson, who face separate capital murder trials beginning in January.
Christian’s mother, Deena Christian, on Tuesday scoffed at Boyd’s bid for a break.
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On paper, Boyd faces a maximum 15-year prison term for harboring a fugitive and another three years for keeping quiet about a felony. However, his actual penalty range will be determined based on the results of a sealed pre-sentence report and a complicated mathematical grid that takes into account his prior history as a robber. Thanks to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that no longer limits judges to those sentencing guidelines, Varlan could go higher or lower.
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[Editor’s Note: Nicholas Stix’s Special to American Renaissance, “The Knoxville Horror: The Crime and the Cover-Up,” can be read here. A list of other articles on the Knoxville Horror can be found here.]
(Posted on October 8, 2008)
Comments
The lack of media coverage for these horrible crimes raises my blood pressure. How can the Main Stream Media over-report the Jena 6 criminals and not properly report the torture slaying of these two innocent white people. If my blood pressure is rising then it must be rising all across the USA. Because I’m an average American that wants justice returned to our crumbling society.
Posted by Jer at 7:52 PM on October 8
I hadn’t realized Boyd’s case was federal! While the law no longer limits judges to sentencing guidelines (since about 2004), they do not like to depart from them without good reason. The 15 years is only the statutory maximum, which is pretty meaningless when it comes to federal sentences; The statutory maximum for me was 20 years, for instance. The real question in Boyd’s likely sentence is how many previous convictions he has - felonies I think are worth three points each, and any misdemeanors within the previous 10 years (or seven?) are worth one point each.
The reason the mainstream media over-reported the Jena-6 as victims while hushing up the Knoxville Horror, Jer, is because they completely approve of what the black hoodlums did in both incidents.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 2:54 PM on October 9
This crime rates up there with the Witcha Massacre several years ago. How many other crimes like this one have happened in the past few years that we know nothing about because the makeup of the victims and the criminals is not sensational enough for our corrupt press and media.
Posted by Gayle Sollenberger at 4:25 PM on October 9