Mandy Moore Tweets on Behalf of the West Memphis 3

 

Turning to her popular Twitter-feed, Mandy Moore addressed what has become a high-profile subject. "Free the West Memphis 3!" tweeted Mandy, recently.

Offering a link to the group's official website, Mandy joins fellow stars including Johnny Depp, Demi Lovato, Natalie Maines Pasdar, and Winona Ryder in defense of a group dubbed the West Memphis 3. Convicted for a crime that many criminal and legal experts believe that they did not commit, they have been imprisoned for nearly two decades. 

The West Memphis 3 refers to Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, Jr., and Jason Baldwin who were tried and convicted for the brutal murders of three children in West Memphis, Arkansas. Linked to the victims through microscopic clothing fibers and a controversial confession by Misskelley, two of the teenagers were sentenced to life in prison, while Echols was placed on death row.

With the West Memphis 3 continuing to plead their innocence, attorneys for the defense have recently filed a Second Amended Writ of Habeas Corpus on behalf of Echols, Misskelley, and Baldwin. Seeking a retrial, the case has yet to be determined by the courts.

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[West Memphis 3 confession, witness corroboration and physical evidence]

Evidence the West Memphis 3 were guilty

One of the 3 confessed. Echols and Baldwin both told others they committed the murders. Echols was seen near the crime scene with muddy clothes. Clothing fibers and a knife connected them to the crime.

[West Memphis 3 legal case evidence]

Damien Wayne ECHOLS and Charles Jason Baldwin v. STATE of Arkansas CR 94-928 S.W.2d

There was substantial evidence of the guilt of appellant Echols where, among other things, the testimony of witnesses placed him in dirty clothes near the crime scene at a time close to the murders; where two independent witnesses reported Echols’s statement that he had killed the three boys and was direct evidence of the statement; where a criminalist from the State Crime Laboratory and a State Medical Examiner testified concerning the similarity of fibers found on the victim’s clothes with clothing found in Echols’s home and the serrated wound patterns on the three victims that were consistent with, and could have been caused by, a knife found in a lake behind appellant Baldwin’s parents’ residence....

Twelve-year-old Christy VanVickle testified that she heard Echols say he “killed the three boys.” Fifteen-year-old Jackie Medford testified that she heard Echols say, “I killed the three little boys and before I turn myself in, I’m going to kill two more, and I already have one of them picked out.” The testimony of these two independent witnesses was direct evidence of the statement by Echols....

I said, just between me and you, did you do it. I won’t say a word. He said yes and he went into detail about it. It was just me and Jason [Baldwin]. He told me he dismembered the kids, or I don’t know exactly how many kids. He just said he dismembered them. He sucked the blood from the p_nis and scrotum and put the b_lls in his mouth.