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As a convicted murderer, Damien Echols is plainly entitled to evidentiary DNA tests that could prove his innocence, lawyers for the so-called West Memphis Three's most prominent figure argued Monday in a pleading to the Arkansas Supreme Court.
Authorities were searching Wednesday for a man who they said walked away from the Craighead County courthouse at the start of his trial Tuesday over a 2019 shooting.
JONESBORO -- Authorities were searching Wednesday for a man who they said walked away from the Craighead County courthouse at the start of his trial Tuesday over a 2019 shooting.
Authorities in Jonesboro are searching for a man who left a court hearing Tuesday after being ordered to appear for the shooting of a man in 2019.
Damien Echols pledged to continue his fight for exoneration after a judge on Thursday denied his petition to retest evidence for DNA from the crime scene of the heinous murders of three boys whose bodies were found in a ditch near this city of about 25,000 almost three decades ago.