By DUNCAN MANSFIELDAssociated Press WriterKNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The case against the alleged leader in the torture slaying of a young Knoxville couple has gone to the jury.
Closing arguments came Tuesday in the eighth day of Lemaricus Davidson's trial on 46 counts including kidnapping, theft, rape and murder in the 2007 carjacking deaths of 21-year-old Channon Christian and her 23-year-old boyfriend Christopher Newsom.
Davidson's lawyer David Eldridge acknowledged his client was a drug dealer, that he lied to police after his arrest and that he had sex with Christian. But he said there's reasonable doubt he committed any crime.
Prosecutor Leland Price told the Knox County jury of seven men and five women there was sufficient circumstantial evidence -- including DNA, fingerprints and Davidson's gun -- to prove "these were his victims."
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