Raynella Dossett Leath trials

[juliekan]

Dossett could get second autopsy

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jun/10/dossett-could-get-second-autopsy/

Baumgartner has denied several motions to have Dossett's body exhumed, but in an order issued Tuesday said he believes it is an issue that is suitable for review by the state Court of Criminal Appeals.

Personally, I think this case will be harder to prove than the David Leath case. I just think these prosecutors are so sure she has gotten away with murder in both these cases, that they keep trying to get her.

[RootBeer]

Thanks for the update. I watched the Leath trial a few months back.

[Amy]

Hope this settles the Dossett case once and for all.

[juliekan]

From knoxnews.com:

Appeals court rejects efforts to exhume former Knox DA's body

KNOXVILLE - The state Court of Criminal Appeals has refused to let prosecutors in the Raynella Dossett Leath murder cases continue their efforts to exhume the body of her first husband, the late Knox County Attorney General Ed Dossett.

[cherylt]

This is from May, but her retrial may be 3 mos away....


Raynella Dossett Leath's will be retried Jan. 11 on charges that she killed her second husband, retired West Knoxville barber David Leath.

And Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner left special prosecutors with a glimmer of hope in their thus-far thwarted efforts to have the body of her first husband exhumed for an autopsy.

Dossett Leath, 60, is charged in separate cases with the premeditated slayings of both her husbands. In March, a mistrial was declared in the David Leath case when the jury deadlocked 11 to 1 in favor of conviction. David Leath died of a single gunshot wound to the head at home in March 2003.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/02/retrial-set-for-woman-in-2nd-husbands-death/?printer=1/

[HeadsOrTails]

This is from May, but her retrial may be 3 mos away....


Raynella Dossett Leath's will be retried Jan. 11 on charges that she killed her second husband, retired West Knoxville barber David Leath.

And Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner left special prosecutors with a glimmer of hope in their thus-far thwarted efforts to have the body of her first husband exhumed for an autopsy.

Dossett Leath, 60, is charged in separate cases with the premeditated slayings of both her husbands. In March, a mistrial was declared in the David Leath case when the jury deadlocked 11 to 1 in favor of conviction. David Leath died of a single gunshot wound to the head at home in March 2003.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/02/retrial-set-for-woman-in-2nd-husbands-death/?printer=1/

Yes, that's the new date. The defense attorneys tried to get it delayed but the judge said no on Friday.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/oct/17/no-delay-for-dossett-leath/

[cherylt]

Yes, that's the new date. The defense attorneys tried to get it delayed but the judge said no on Friday.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/oct/17/no-delay-for-dossett-leath/


TYVM for the answer & the link! I figured they would try to delay, and delay and then try to delay some more... :)