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Factors they considered in echols involvement. and no one has really asked what that might be. why was it crossed out? who crossed it out? one of the jurors had copied the facsimile of that list into her notebook. the crossed out item is the jessie misskelley testimony. >> what we now know is that, in fact, jessie misskelley's statements played a pretty major part in the way that the jury and the echols and baldwin case came to understand the case and came to have confidence in the notion that they should convict, which is wrong. [ crowd gasps ] the comeback trail. [ buzzer sounds ] it's easy ...

Throwing around words like ritual and using it interchangeably with satanic crimes. we did a close evaluation. we didn't see one. we didn't see one case. >> if you can paint these guys as involved in satanism, anything is possible. and the apparent castration of christopher byers fit into the satanic theory for griffis as well. >> they used knives to cut up the three boys that were killed, the 8-year-old boys. >> do the types of injuries have significance? >> removal of sex organs and some books on occultism you'll talk about removing the testicles for the semen. >> a lot of the early understa...

The area had had a rumored history of devil worshipping and that type of thing. that was something people were seeing around the country at this time. in damien's case, it was the kids that came in and said they saw him eating the hind quarter of a dog. the rumors were rampant. the police department asked me to come up with a list of people that we had had dealings with in the juvenile department that might have had something to do with this. >> damien's name was mentioned very early on by a lot of people. he does act strange. he wears the black clothing which creates attention to him. >> we w...

>> in september, judge david burnett, who preside over both trials ruled he would not hear any new evidence in the case. so damien echols is now appealing his case to the arkansas supreme court, which has previously upheld the conviction. >> this is the first time that the arkansas supreme court is going to interpret the dna statute. so it's going to have enormous implications for anybody who comes in their wake. >> i'm thinking about when we argue this in the arkansas supreme court, the approach we want to take, justices, you may be aware that this specific case has garnered a lot of interest...

And i urge you all to go to wm3.org and donate to the defense fund, the donations is what has paid for the forensic tests and the dna testing that is going to set these men free. i just want to say i'm honored to be here. lorri is a wonderful, wonderful person, and she is what has kept us going for 14 years and made people not forget about the west memphis three. so thank you very much. [ applause ] >> kelly's court is back in session. on the docket today, meet terry hobbs. this man sued the dixie chicks for defamation. why? natalie maines has been very vocal about this case, saying that new d...