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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 ...

Life to a degree. >> you can say i sort of like died myself. because i shut out humanity. >> steve's death was so difficult for pam to accept that other problems resulted. she separated from her husband and moved here to her parents' home. >> a crime of this nature will take a toll on anybody. and i have seen this happen to our home. >> tomorrow, 19-year-old damien echols' attorneys will file with the court. the cancer crypts from he cannol' trial, more than 4,000 pages of testimony. that will set into motion the appeals process that echols believes will lead to the overturning of his convicti...

Counsel. >> good morning. may it please the court, mr. echols has been to this court several times in the last decade challenging his conviction directly and collaterally. and this statute does not call for a retrial. it's not about trying somebody again for the state to prove guilt twice. >> counselor, what harm is there in allowing him to present the evidence in the last 17 years? >> i'm sorry? >> what harm is there in allowing him to present all evidence? >> well, the harm is in the finality of a criminal judgment that is not demonstrated to have any constitutional or procedural defect, and...

>> damien echols quit talking to reporters after getting warnings from his attorneys. last week echols said mark byers committed the murders. does it come as a surprise, mark? >> we don't have any comment. >> he's got knowledge about the area. he knows when the search is over with. he is big enough that he can carry the boys there and throw them in. his son was the only one mutilated. the other two weren't mutilated. all of the pieces fit together with a person like byers. >> after the sentencing, the mother and stepfather of christopher byers moved out of west memphis. echols claims byers is ...

Justice system's interest in finality and the work that gets done in evaluating whether or not justice has been served in each of the forums mr. echols has been through already. >> it sounds as if your argument is that all evidence of guilt will be considered, but it's going to be extremely difficult to admit all other evidence that may have been exculpatory. >> i think that's -- that is the argument. it's the second alternative reason the circuit court concluded that relief should be denied. and to me, that's a reasonable statute. >> but where does it say all other evidence of guilt? >> i und...