Updated: 2/27/2009 7:53:12 PM
Legal paperwork filed by Assistant District Attorney Leland Price reveals details of a proposed deal with murder suspect Vanessa Coleman.
In response to a motion filed by defense attorneys for Letalvis Cobbins, Price said Coleman was offered a sentence of life with the possibility of parole if she pled guilty. If she accepted, she would have been expected to testify truthfully about the carjacking and murders of Chris Newsom and Channon Christian.
The response also said the offer was conveyed orally and rejected orally.
The State also explains no other offers were made to any other defendants in the case.
Coleman is one of four defendants accused of raping and killing Christian and Newsom in January 2007.
Defense attorneys are also fighting to suppress Coleman's statements made to police when she was arrested in Kentucky in January 2007.
Transcripts and audio recordings were submitted into evidence on Friday.
The prosecution called ATF Special Agent Bernard Waggoner to testify about conversations he had with Coleman.
Waggoner told the court that he talked with Coleman shortly before she testified in front of a grand jury on January 17, 2007.
The special agent said Coleman was answering a subpoena when he met with her.
The federal agent testified Coleman changed her story several times. She at first told him she only saw Christian once, but later admitted she gave the "girl" water several times.
Waggoner said Coleman told him she remembered seeing Lemaricus Davidson bring a blindfolded white female into the house on Chipman Street on Saturday January 6.
The ATF agent also said Coleman eventually told him that she saw Davidson kill the girl. She described seeing him come up behind her and put his hand under her chin and 'snap her neck'.
Waggoner also said Coleman admitted to seeing Davidson tie up the girl, drag her body into the livingroom, cover her with garbage bags, then stuff her into a garbage can. Coleman apparently told investigators Davidson said he need 'to take out the trash'.
The investigator says Coleman also told him that George Thomas told her that he was ashamed of himself and then admitted to killing the white male.
Waggoner told the prosecution that the defendant never used Christian's or Newsom's name, but described them as girl or male, or white female and white male.
During that meeting, the ATF agent says Coleman also remembered seeing Davidson and Thomas come in with bloody shirts before they put them in the washer the night Newsom was shot and killed.
Coleman did testify in front of the grand jury.
The agent also said that on January 25, 2007 he offered Coleman protective custody after learning the media had named Coleman as a witness in the case. Coleman agreed, but later decided not to stay in protective custody.
Waggoner told the court, Coleman was arrested in Lebanon, Kentucky on January 31.
The victims families say they don't want to see anymore delays that would cause the trials to be rescheduled again.
"We've already got one and we're going to get four more guilty verdicts," Channon Christian's father Gary said. "The end will come soon, maybe not as soon as we'd like it to, but it's coming."
Gary and Deena Christian say although they know many details about the case, it is still not easy to hear about their daughter's final moments.
"It's hard to listen to," Deena said. "Yea, it's hard to hear it," Gary added. "We know it, we've read it, we've seen it. It won't be the last time we hear it. Does it make me mad? Oh yea, makes us want justice even more."
