Damien Echols tweeted that under the law for a process called Habeas Corpus, he is within rights to file for further DNA testing of evidence from the case.
Damien Echols tweeted that under the law for a process called Habeas Corpus, he is within rights to file for further DNA testing of evidence from the case.
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.
WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas judge on Thursday rejected a request to allow new genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the killing of three boys
Crittenden County Circuit Court Judge Tonya Alexander denied a petition Thursday (June 23) by Damien Echols to have advanced DNA testing done on ligatures that were recovered in the 1993 murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis.