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this man. attorney dennis riordan. i was immediately very reluctant to get involved in a death penalty case. prosecutors generally will not pursue the death penalty unless they feel the evidence of guilt is overwhelming, and i was stunned to find out that there was not, in my opinion, a single piece of credible evidence in the death case of this man s guilt. damien echols, jason baldwin and jessie misskelley, now known as the west memphis three, have all found supporters from all over the world, including celebrities like actor johnny depp and rock musician eddie vedder. do you know how rare it is for someone on death row to be set free? there are so many things about this case and about my life in general that are against the odds that things like that don t even make me blink anymore. and that support has led to hundreds of thousands of dollars
what kind of pressure are police under at the time? business was suffering. people were not going out. life was not going on as normal. and they weren t getting crucial information from the state crime lab. three weeks after the murders a police inspector pleaded for answers about the young victims. time of death. cause of death. were the kids sodomized? we need information from the crime lab desperately, the inspector says. our hands are tied. police had all these theories, but what did jessie misskelley do for them in terms of confirming what they were suspecting? he gave them something they could run with. he gave them something that they could use. almost exactly one month after the murders, jessie misskelley told police he saw what happened in a tape-recorded statement. where did you go? we went up to robin hood. what occurred while you were there?
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the police were struggling to solve a crime with very few leads. what kind of pressure are police under at the time? business was suffering. people were not going out. life was not going on as normal. and they weren t getting crucial information from the state crime lab. three weeks after the murders a police inspector pleaded for answers about the young victims. time of death. cause of death. were the kids sodomized? we need information from the crime lab desperately, the inspector says. our hands are tied. police had all these theories, but what did jessie misskelley do for them in terms of confirming what they were suspecting? he gave them something they could run with. he gave them something that they could use. almost exactly one month after the murders, jessie misskelley told police he saw what happened in a tape-recorded statement. where did you go? we went up to robin hood.