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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.
Damien Echols has filed an appeal to have advanced DNA testing done on ligatures that were collected in the murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis on May 5, 1993.