Letalvis Cobbins sentenced to life in prison without the pos

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Published 2009-08-27

After deliberating for nearly three hours on Wednesday a Davidson County jury sentenced Letalvis Cobbins to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the January 2007 carjacking, kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom. Cobbins is the first of four defendants to come to trial in a crime that shocked the Knoxville area two and a half years ago. Hear the families of both Christian and Newsom react to the sentence.