Advanced Criminal Law :: West Memphis 3
Professor James R. Elkins College of Law
West Virginia University | Spring | 2009

 

 

 

Web Resources

Wikipedia

Trial Transcrips

Free the West Memphis Three

[Evidence Archive: People] [Police Documents]

[Crime Lab Documents] [Misc. Documents]

[Baldwin/Misskelley/Echols Legal Documents: Legal Updates & Transcripts]

[Baldwin Post-Conviction Chronology]

[Misskelley ost-Conviction Chronology]

[Echols P ost-Conviction Chronology]

West Memphis Three Discussion Board

[Jessie Misskelley Trial Transcript]

[Baldwin/Echols Trial Transcript]

[Hearing Transcripts]

West Memphis Three: Blog

West Memphis Three: Blackboard

Court TV Crime Library

Parabola Interview: Damien Echols

SantaCruz IndyMedia [radio program: 56 min]

Videos & Audio

KATV Channel 7: WM3: Justice Served?
[25 minute video][November 11, 2008][On the prosecutor's knife demonstration]

KATV Channel 7: WM3: Justice Served?
[25 minute video][November 11, 2008][On the prosecutor's knife demonstration]

[The West Memphis Three] [CNN: Doubts Cast in WM3 Case (with short footage of Terry Hobbs)] [ABC News: Update] [West Memphis Three: Time for the Truth: pt.1, 9.58 mins.] [Time for the Truth, pt.2] [WMC TV DNA News] [KAIT News: On the Supporters] [KART News: 10th Anniversary of the Crime] [Natalie Maines Joins West Memphis 3 Fight]

[West Memphis Three: Recap] [Recap-pt.2] [Recap-pt.3] [Recap-pt.4] [Recap-pt.5]

[Jessie Misskelley]

[Jason Baldwin]

[Where the Bodies Were Found]

Police Crime Scene Narrated Notes [audio/youTube]

Terry Hobbes

[Terry Hobbes] [Terry Hobbes-pt.2] [Terry Hobbes-pt.3] [Terry Hobbes-pt.4] [Terry Hobbes-pt.5] [Terry Hobbes-pt.6] [Terry Hobbes-pt.7] [Terry Hobbes-pt.8] [Terry Hobbes-pt.9] [Terry Hobbes-pt.10] [Byers vs. Hobbes]

John Mark Byers

[Interview with John Mark Byers] [Best of John Mark Byers] [Best of John Mark Byers-pt.2] [Best of John Mark Byers-pt.3] [Think What You Might] [Byers vs. HBO Filmmakers]

Appeals Defense Team (Press Conference|November 1, 2007)

[Damien Echols Legal Defense Team Press Conference] [Press Conference-pt.2] [Press Conference-pt.3] [Press Conference-pt.4] [Press Conference-pt.5] [Press Conference-pt.6] [Press Conference-pt.7] [Press Conference/Q&A: pt.1] [Press Conference/Q&A: pt.2] [Press Conference/Q&A: pt.3] [Press Conference/Q&A: pt.4] [Press Conference/Q&A: pt.5]

[Transcript: Damien Echols Legal Defense Team Press Conference]

MARTIN DAVID HILL'S CASE WEBSITE
Jivepuppi.com

Pretrial

Introduction & Narrative Day of Discovery of the Bodies [pt.2]

The Neighborhood The Place Views of the Discovery Woods

Strangers on Bicycles Witness: Last to See the Victims Alive

Witnesses: Seeing the Victims Before Their Death Chris Wahl

Sightings of White & Black Vans The Tattooed Man

The Bojangles Man [Mr. Bojangles: youTube video] [Commentary on the Bojangles Incident]

Odd Characters Rumors and Confessions

Crime Scene Evidence Sticks from the Crime Scene

Slick Bank at the Crime Scene Polygraphs

Detective's Interviews with Damien Echols [pt.2] [pt. 3]

Victims

Injuries to the Victims

Investigation

Door to Door Interviews

DNA Evidence

Physical Evidence for DNA Analysis Biological Samples

DNA Summary of DNA Evidence Hairs

Physical Evidence

Hairs Hair Fibers Wax Shoelaces

Clothing Clothes, Fabric, and Fibers

Knives [pt.2] [pt.3]

Evidence List Evidence Findings

Experts

Dale Griffis: Expert on the Occult

On Dale Griffis (Questioning his Credentials and His Testimony): [commentary] [Who is Dale Griffis?] [Background] [Police Who Believe]

Tony Anderson (fingerprint expert) [pt.2]

Cult Killing?

Cult Aspects ot the Case A Satanic Aspect

Statements of Ricky Climer

Satanic Panic from the Free the WM3 website

Persons of Interest

James K. Martin [Interviews & Notes: Free WM3 website]

L.G. Hollingsworth [L.G. Hollingsworth Telephone Call]

Anthony Hollingsworth

Defendant: Jason Baldwin

Jason Baldwin

Statements of Baldwin's Mother & Step-Father

The Two Baldwins

Defendant: Jessie Misskelley

Jessie Misskelley Misskelley's Confessions Misskelley Statement Played at His Trial Analysis of Misskelley's Confession

Exhibit of the Search Warrant

The Misskelley search warrant: pg. 1 -- pg. 2 -- pg. 3 -- pg. 4 -- pg. 5

[Testimony of Pam Hobbs: audio] [Testimony of Debra O'Tinger: audio] [Testimony of Susie Brewer: audio] [Testimony of Melisa Byers: (mother of one of the victims): audio] [Testimony of Ronald Lax: (private investigator): audio] [Testimony of Jessie Misskelley Sr.: audio]

Defendant: Damien Echols

Damien Echols: [Wikipedia]

Background: [pt.1] [pt.2] [pt.3] [pt.4] [pt.5] [pt.6]

Echols & Detective Ridge: [pt.1] [pt.2] [pt.3]

Rumors about Echols: [pt.1] [pt.2]

Echols: On Getting the Death Penalty

Damien Echol

KATV: Damien Echols :: KATV-pt.2

Victims

Photos and Families

Documentary Films

"Paradise Lost: Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" ["Paradise Lost" preview]

[Pt.1] [pt.2] [pt.3] [pt.4] [pt.5] [pt.6] [pt.7] [pt.8] [pt.9] [pt.10] [pt.11] [pt.12] [pt.13] [pt.14] [pt.15] [pt.16] [pt.17] [pt.18] [pt.19] [pt.20] [pt.21] [pt.22] [pt.23] [pt.24] [pt.25] [pt.26] [pt.27] [p.28] [pt.29] [pt.30] [pt.31] [pt.32] [pt.33] [pt.34] [pt.35] [pt.36] [pt.37] [pt.38]

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations"

[pt.1] [pt.2] [pt.3] [pt.4] [pt.5] [pt. 6] [pt.7] [pt.8] [pt.9] [pt.10] [pt.11] [pt.12] [pt.13] [pt.14] [pt.15] [pt.16] [pt.17] [pt.18] [pt. 19] [pt.20] [pt.21]

"Paradise Lost" I & II
[an essay/review of the two West Memphis Three documentary films
by Andy Opel; the essay appears in Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media]

Reproducing a Trial: Evidence and Its Assessment in Paradise Lost
[Jennifer L. Mnookin]

Documentary Film and Social Change
[prospectus for a dissertation by Angela J. Aguayo] [275 pgs. dissertation]

Jessie Misskelley Trial

Prosecution's Closing Argument

Supplemental Resources

Damien Echols, Almost Home: My Life Story--Vol. 1 (New York: iUniverse, 2005)

Guy Reel, Marc Perrusquia & Bartholomew Sullivan, The Blood of Innocents (New York: Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp., 1995) [Note from the "Free the West Memphis 3 website: "Originally published in 1995, the book was written by reporters from the local paper and has a sensational tone. It contains several inaccuracies and instances of speculative journalism. Names have been changed and obviously none of the recent developments are mentioned."] [The authors of The Blood of Innocents reported the case for the Commercial Appeal, the largest newspaper in Memphis.] [Index to The Blood of Innocents] [Names for Pseudonyms Used in The Blood of Innocents]

M.W. Anderson & Brett Savory, The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis 3 (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004)

Arkansas Judiciary

Justices of the Arkansas Supreme Court

Arkansas Appellate Procedure-Criminial

Pretrial Procedures

The Story of Brady v. Maryland

Expert Testimony: Misc.

Mississippi: A Case Study in the Use of Expert Testimony

On an Expert's Using the Term "Match" in Regard to Fiber Comparisons
[O.J. Simpson trial]

Fiber Evidence and the Wayne Williams Trial

Brandon L. Garrett & Peter J. Neufeld, Invalid Forensic Science Testimony and Wrongful Convictions, 95 Vir. L. Rev. 1 (2009) [on-line text of the entire article]

 

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