Three West Memphis will be freed?

[faire_jour]

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Its my belief that the three did not kill those children and I'm glad they will be freed. That case was flawed from the beginning.

i agree completely. 18 years of their lives were stolen and even after they are freed, they are still convicted child killers.

the murders of those three children was a great tragedy, but so was the conviction of three innocent teens.

 

[faire_jour]

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The part I do not get is that they pled guilty but at the same time maintained their innocence...so they could be released.. It is some sort of legal manuver to prevent a lawsuit.

I do think they are guilty.. The guy with the low IQ would not be able to make up the stuff he confessed to the police.

they fed him the information. The cops asked "when did you take the boys?" and he would answer something like "in the morning" and they would say "no, it was after school." so he would then say "ok, after school." the police gave him the information and made him change his story until it "fit".

check out the documentary "paradise lost" it follows the trial and has a follow up 10(?) years later.

 

[jillio]

Yes, of course I have. The only thing has been bothering me for the past 15 years after watching the documentary films of Paraside Lost part 1 and 2 is that these three men were not being provided a polygraph. It may help clearing their names that they did not commit 18 years ago.
There were some bite marks on three little boys and all of these wrongly convicted men's dentures exams that DID NOT match to the bite marks.

The knife which was found in the pond behind Jason Baldwin's residence by the polices. But the forensic documents in the defendant lawyer of three convicted men claimed that the knife did not match to one of the deceased boys' wounded body. The polices must have planted the knife in the pond behind Jason's home.

One of the deceased boys' stepfather Terry Hobbs's DNA of his own hair was found at the crime scene. I am surprised that no one in the police dept took seriously that he and his friend David could be the prime suspects. Other victim's stepfather John Mark Byers's bottom teeth which has contained a gap between teeth, the forensic lab did not take a denture exam for the bite marks on victims' bodies. And David's too. They should have done it by then. John had physically abused Chris prior to the murders. There is too many shady informations and documents from the prosecutors, the West Memphis police department and the judge.

Jesse Misskelley's confession was clearly a coercion by the police at that time during the 14 hours questioning in a room without food, water, especially without a lawyer being provided in order to present with him. The police could have used him very easily due to his IQ level.

I'm glad that you have checked into the details. You would be surprised at the number of people that haven't, and basically know nothing about the case, that will claim they should never have been released, or even that they should have been executed. Those kind of people are running on emotion.

The disturbing thing about this case, and many more that I can name, is that we have 3 people who spent 18 years of their life paying for a crime they did not commit, and the real perpetrator is still walking free. Talk about a total miscarraige of justice.

It is currently estimated that we have approximately 2 million innocent people incarcerated in the US for crimes they did not commit.

 

[Dixie]

It is my opinion that the WM3 are innocent and have been from the very get-go. The police work to me seemed very shoddy and questionable at best.

Just my two cents.

 

[shel90]

Just finished reading a John Grisham book , "The Confession"...seems like this case and the fictional events in the book are so eerily alike.

 

[jillio]

Just finished reading a John Grisham book , "The Confession"...seems like this case and the fictional events in the book are so eerily alike.

Grisham usually bases his books on actual events, but not to the degree that they are nonfiction accounts.

 

[dead money]

Just finished reading a John Grisham book , "The Confession"...seems like this case and the fictional events in the book are so eerily alike.

I read that too and thought the same thing about a current story about a texas man and a strangled woman in east Texas, got goosebumps from that.

The Confession was one of his better books too, imo btw

but yeah, the WM3 thing: waaaaaay overdue!

 

[SilentWanderer]

I don't think the WM3 did it. What physical evidence there was couldn't be conclusively linked to them and any testimony that didn't point to the 3 was ignored or downright discarded (I recall reading of and seeing later in a doco the story from an employee of the local Bojangles who called the police and reported a suspicious man who was covered in blood and mud running into the restaurant's bathroom to clean himself off around the time of the murders - it was investigated too late, not admitted in court). The police, the prosecutor, and the coroner's office were sloppy and negligent in their "investigation" - and Turvey's later investigation called them out.

To me, it was a case of "Let's go after the easiest target first (Jessie Misskelley Jr - mentally challenged), legally lie to him ("we're not going to use what you tell us against you; we're just trying to find out who did this"), keep him there for hours without his parents' consent nor a lawyer while harassing him into saying what we want and implicating whom we want, and then going after the 'alternative' (read 'devil-worshipper') kids who are already on our radar." It was also a case of going after those with fewer resources to fight back just to appease an hysterical populace.

Those poor children and those near and dear to them deserved justice for what was done to them, and they didn't get it when the WM3 were convicted. The whole thing smacked (to me, anyway) of pettiness and vindictiveness.