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8/20/2008
5:12:27 pm EDT
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Lawyers Return To Court Over 1993 Ark. Slayings (WM3)
Author: Jon Gambrell, AP Source: Google
Title: LAWYERS RETURN TO COURT OVER 1993 ARK. SLAYINGS
It took a jury 13 days to convict and sentence Damien Echols to death for the 1993 slayings of three second-graders.
Now, nearly 15 years later, Echols is hoping to convince the judge who oversaw his original case to grant him a new trial. His attorneys say DNA tests clear him and the two others in prison for the crime.
Attorneys for Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, known to supporters as the "West Memphis Three," met Wednesday with Craighead County Circuit Judge David Burnett and the case's original prosecutor.
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| Speaking Of Corrupt Courts... | Aug 21st. at 4:07:13 pm EDT
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Piano Tm (Miami, Florida) - Email Me
A friend of my wife's has been actively helping the families of the WM3 with donations and such. You can visit his site at www.gothic-iowegian.com or just click the link below.
Now for my opinion:
This court not only ignored exhonorating evidence in the first trial, all evidence submitted was purely speculation. This is publicly known and this judge and his cronies are in the limelight.
Possibility 1: His honor caves under the public spotlight and do the just thing.
Possibility 2 and far more likely: Using the worst strategy for covering one's ass possible, he is going to maintain his original ruling.
Why is possibility 2 such a bad idea: when you ruin people's lives just to further your own career, you end up ruining your career. My family personally knew Buzz Westfall, a St. Louis County commissioner who was being groomed to replace Kit Bond as Missouri state senator, and possibly for the presidency. He screwed with my family and got caught by the FBI. He died as a county executive. John Ashcroft was assisting him. If you recall, his demise was much more public. My family has no political power. These guys abused their power and it came back to bite them.
It was all about money and what it really is, is if a corrupt official is abusing you, he's probably committing alot of other abuses too. They will add up and it will lead to their downfall. Look at George Bush Jr. Garbage piles up and eventualy, people get tired of the stink.
Now, it doesn't always happen. Many times these people escape this life scot-free. Then they will have to pay for it in the next life.
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| ... | Aug 21st. at 10:21:01 am EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
As long as Burnett is being payed off, the WM3 will never see the light of day again. It's time for them to move to a higher court and away from the hillbilly justice of Arkansas.
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| Hmmm | Aug 21st. at 12:42:41 am EDT
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Raven Cadwell (Williamsburg, Virginia) - Email Me
As long as this judge is involved, I don't see them getting a fair shake. He was blatently biased the first time around and I doubt that is going to change. No one down there seems to be interested in justice, just vindicating themselves and their ignorance.
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| Understandings | Aug 20th. at 11:34:30 pm EDT
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Mysteries Child (Garfield, Arkansas) - Email Me
I fail to grasp how, in any civilized judicial system, the admission of DNA evidence can be denied.
I am certain, however, that if there is any legal way for Judge Burnett to keep the evidence out of the consideration, he'll do it. Statement's like "I'm tired of the controversy" give me to believe that, frankly, he'd rather take his chances with horriffic karmic reprecussions-- in which he probably does not believe-- than risk having to admit his error in the first place.
I can, in one way, almost sympathize. I believe it is a grave moral failing to refuse to admit an error. However, all the people involved in this prosecution have been so heavily and so frequently reviled as "dumb rednecks," "knuckle-dragging cavemen," and the like that, given some understanding of human psychology, it is not difficult for me to see how they could place more value on vindicating themselves than on seeing justice served.
Does that make it right?? Hell, no!! It's just an observation, from one foolish child who was born and raised in West Virginia, who now resides among the good ol' boys in Arkansas, and who has over the course of 30 years grown very, very tired of being subjected to one damn stereotype after another.
Reactionary fear and bigotry are terrible, terrible things, no matter what form they take or where they occur.
I light my candle and bow my head in the fervent hope that justice will be served.
I am not, however, holding my breath.
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| This Scares Me | Aug 20th. at 9:26:26 pm EDT
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Aidan Odinson (Collingdale, Pennsylvania) - Email Me
Bureaucrats, when their back is against the wall, have a tactic which is known as the "review". They'll hold meetings, bring forth testimony, et cetera, and then arrive at the conclusion they already had made, claiming all the while to have given the matter "full consideration with the opportunity for all to be heard.
Innocence needs to be recognized. And, some people will need to make atonement.
If injustice continues, the karmic debt will certainly be more than I'd want hanging over my head!
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| Unfortunately The Judge Has His Own Bias | Aug 20th. at 8:57:37 pm EDT
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Christopher Blackwell (Deming, New Mexico) - Email Me
I would feel better if the WM3 could have another judge. this was the judge that allowed the circus first trial and they have been forced to come back to this dame judge who has a vested interest in the case. After all if they were given a new trial it might end up proving the circus the first trial was. the police and the prosecutor also have a vested interest in have the case stop, for it might well bring an investigation to the sloppiness of the original investigate that allowed much evidence to be lost in the first place including a man that was covered with blood that night.
There was no evidence of any Satanic Groups in the Area at the time of the crime, though we were in the midst of the so called Satanic Child Abuse scare that sent many innocent people to prison. There was no evidence of any form of ceremony taking place that night.
Certainly no evidence that any of the teen agers were Satanist, just that they like Metalica and reading Steven King novels. Gee in the 1980s I wonder how many people could have been accused of those same two things and therefore called Satanists by this court.
there is no evidence that any of the teenagers were there and none of the teenagers had a n history of violence, nor was any motive established. The police were under a lot of pressure to accuse somebody and any person would have taken the pressure off of the police.
So until such time as the WM3 can get another judge this is just another circus trial, by the same judge that allowed the other circus trial.
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| I Wonder | Aug 20th. at 8:48:35 pm EDT
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DarkPagan (Cincinati, Ohio) - Email Me
who their "Satanic Expert" is, and what their qualifications are? (if any) This is sad! They didn't have any suspect, any leads...so they scapegoated these (then) kids to take the fall. Not that I blame the one kid, but I don't care who threatens me with what I woulod never confess to anything I didn't do.
And we all know what their idea of Satanic is...anything that isn't christian, jew, or islamic.
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| I'm Hoping | Aug 20th. at 7:49:17 pm EDT
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Dennis Deal (Nazareth, Pennsylvania) - Email Me
that this tragedy comes to a just end and that law enforcement will go after the person. But I'm not holding my breath either.
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