TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on Nov 11, 2015

A Knoxville woman who was charged with killing her first husband and later convicted of killing her second husband is trying to win a new trial by pointing to the misdeeds of former Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner, the Knoxnews reportsRaynella Dossett Leath had been charged with killing her first husband, Knox County District Attorney General Ed Dossett, in 1992, but that case was dropped when she was convicted of fatally shooting David Leath. Baumgartner had denied Leath’s motion for new trial just before stepping down from the bench. She is now seeking Baumgartner's entire Tennessee Bureau of Investigation file to bolster her case.