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>> i firmly believe this is a miscarriage of justice and well keep going and keep going. it doesnt matter how many years it takes. >> it was an emotion daily. especially for the victims families. >> damien is not going anywhere. justice prevailed the first time. i have all the faith in the world that justice will prevail again. and someday ill get to watch damien echols die. >> theyre not the only ones who want justice to prevail. >> anybody with eyes can see these boys are innocent them did not...

And you have here two of the victims that have the same identical injury. they were obvious claw marks. the spacing and the configuration of those injuries is not compatible with a serrated knife such as this, or for that matter any knife. >> over a period of time, our understanding of what actually happened has changed. what we know now is that the lawyers on the case hadnt gone to the crime laboratory and looked meticulously through all of the laboratories notebooks of what was done out at the...

Then i heard about it. why is it that i didnt know this before? >> im all for burning them at the stake like they did in salem. i dont have a problem with it. after what they have done to us. that still would not be good enough. >> good evening. im diane davis. >> and im tony brooks. in a statement given to the police, 17-year-old jessie misskelley allegedly admitted to it. >> he told police he watched 18-year-old damien echols and 16-year-old jason baldwin brutalize the children as part of a cu...

We were 30 days into the case when an arrest was made. there was a lot of burden taken off of everyone that was involved in that case. we felt like we had a very solid case. >> if you had it to do all over again, would you have made the comment about 11 on a one out of ten scale? >> probably would not have. [announcer] if your dog can dream it, purina pro plan can help him achieve it. ♪ driving rock/metal

Is for experts who we will be calling today who provided the core of the new evidence before the district court. what is the new evidence that proves not merely that this was an unfair trial, but that innocent men were convicted? and with that ill turn to my partner don morgan. >> good morning. im going to take a minute or two here just to review some of the dna evidence that has recently surfaced in the case. first, a little background. in 2001, arkansas, like a lot of other states passed a sta...

>> they know that they got three innocent people locked up for a crime they didnt commit. i didnt kill nobody but you know, to me, i think it is wrong. it aint about us. its about the victims. they need peace. the victims families need peace. and i think the police owes that to them. >> the facts of the crime scene are actually a pretty interesting part of the case. because this crime took place in a wooded area. it was near two major freeways. it happened right near a truck stop which is now cl...

[ yelling ] >> people in west memphis gathered in church today to count their blessings after an emotional week capped by the arrests. for more than a month the savage murders of steve branch, chris byers and michael moore had nagged peoples conference. >> at a press conference he said the case against accused teens is very strong. >> out of a 1-10, how strong is the case? >> 11. >> jesse misskelley, damien echols and jason baldwin are killers. >> do you have any reason at this time as to why se...

Would have gotten away with murdering me if it would not have been for what you guys did, for being there in the very beginning and getting this whole thing on tape so that the rest of the world sees what was happening. if not for that, these people would have murdered me, swept this under the rug, and i wouldnt be anything but a memory right now. >> a growing number of people are now standing behind the west memphis three, saying the men convicted of murder are innocent. from johnny depp to the...

Context of what most people are accustomed to with dna testing. >> so just to clarify, the dna evidence, the point of bringing it up is to say that hobbs did it, but one could think it would be more likely hobbs had done it versus damien because there is no evidence there at all. >> the last thing as defense lawyers we would intend to do is indict and convict someone beyond a reasonable doubt of this case. the evidence as to hobbs i dont think should be viewed that way. but is it evidence that w...