Sep 11, 2008
WM3 Denied New Trial Despite DNA Evidence That Could Clear Them
“A judge on Wednesday rejected claims that DNA evidence clears three men convicted of killing three 8-year-old boys in 1993 and denied their requests for a new trial. Lawyers for Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley – known to supporters as the ‘West Memphis Three’ – had argued that new DNA tests would prove their clients’ innocence.
Both Baldwin and Misskelley claimed their lawyers failed to adequately represent them during trial. Their lawyers said DNA evidence provided by Echols’ defense team showed that the men did not kill Steven Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore. ‘The court finds that (Echols’s) DNA-testing results are inconclusive because they do not raise a reasonable probability that he did not commit the offenses; that is, they are inconclusive as to his claim of actual innocence,’ Circuit Court Judge David wrote in a 10-page order denying the men’s requests for a new trial.”
(via Precious Metal)
(Related: “Updates on The West Memphis 3 Case”)
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Lol I for one cannot possibly express enough my elation that these three baby raping, child murdering, devil loving parasites have had their dreams of freedom smashed forever : )
One can only but hope that a fellow inmate of Echols will cut his throat and save the tax paying masses from the cost of having to execute him eventually lol..