Life After Death: The Shocking True Story of a Innocent Man on Death Row (47 page)

158.
Mara Leveritt, “A Letter from Jason Baldwin, As He Contemplates Heading Back to Court,” July 21, 2009, http://maraleveritt.com.

159.
John Brummett, “Judging David Burnett’s Blunders,”
Arkansas News
, Dec. 29, 2009, http://arkansasnews.com/2009/12/29/judging-david-burnetts-blunders/.

160.
Arkansas Code, annotated sections 16-112-208(e) and 16-112-(e)(3). For a discussion of the DNA statutes and a critique of Judge Burnett’s ruling, see David S. Mitchell, Jr., “Lock ’Em Up and Throw Away the Key: ‘The West Memphis Three’ and Arkansas’s Statute for Post-Conviction Relief Based on New Scientific Evidence,”
Arkansas Law Review
62, no. 3 (2009), pp. 501–532.

161.
Supreme Court of Arkansas, 2010 Ark. 417, pp. 15–16, http://arkansasappeals.com/2010/11/04/arkansas-supreme-court-west-memphis-3-cases-reversed-and-remanded/.

162.
Mara Leveritt, “Full Moon over West Memphis,”
Memphis
, May 1, 2010, http://memphismagazine.com/gyrobase/Magazine/PrintFriendly?oid=oid%3A2112079.

163.
Hill, http://jivepuppi.com/DNA_results_part_four.html.

164.
Damien Echols Defense Team press conference.

165.
Hill, http://jivepuppi.com/DNA_results_part_five.html.

166.
Damien Echols Defense Team press conference.

167.
Perrusquia, “Hollywood Directed Defense, Challenged Old Case Against ‘West Memphis Three.’”

168.
Arkansas Take Action press release, “New DNA Found on Victim in West Memphis 3 Case Excludes Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin or Jessie Misskelley,” July 18, 2011.

169.
Dennis P. Riordan and Donald M. Horgan, “Petitioner Damien Echols’s Reply in Support of Motion for a New Trial,” Aug. 12, 2008, p. 23, http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/motions/de_new_trial_reply.html.

170.
Damien Echols Defense Team press conference.

171.
Hill, “Identifying the Source of Critical Details in Confessions,”p. 38.

172.
Damien Echols Defense Team press conference.

173.
Johnny Dodd, “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?,”
People
, Jan. 21, 2008, p. 92, http://people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20171260,00.html.

174.
Damien Echols Defense Team press conference.

175.
Hill, http://jivepuppi.com/case_for_innocence_baldwin.html.

176.
Leveritt,
Devil’s Knot
, p. 218.

177.
Arkansas Times
staff, “WM3 Revelation.”

178.
Arkansas Take Action press release, “Supporters Call Judge’s Ruling a ‘Mockery’ in the Case of the West Memphis Three,” Sept. 12, 2008.

179.
Arkansas Times
staff, “WM3 Revelation.”

180.
Mara Leveritt, “‘The ‘Big Ask’: An Insider’s View of the Legal Maneuvers That Freed the West Memphis Three,”
Arkansas Times
, Aug. 24, 2011, p. 10, http://arktimes.com/arkansas/the-big-ask/Content?oid=1888389.

181.
Cathy Frye, “Lawyers for 3 Raise Juror-Talk Claim,”
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
, June 11, 2008, http://westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/6740.

182.
Nirider, Drizin, and Bergman, “Brief of Amici Curiae,” p. 6.

183.
Frye, “Lawyers for 3 Raise Juror-Talk Claim.”

184.
Arkansas Times
staff, “WM3 Revelation.”

185.
Frye, “Lawyers for 3 Raise Juror-Talk Claim.”

186.
Arkansas Take Action press release, “Arkansas Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Damien Echols’s Appeal for a New Trial,” Sept. 27, 2010, http://freewestmemphis3.org/index.php?option=com_content&viewe=article&id=187;arkansas-supreme-court-hears-oral-arguments-in-damien-echols-appeal-for-a-new-trial-92710&catid=37;press-releases&Itemid=83.

187.
Nirider, Drizin, and Bergman, “Brief of Amici Curiae,” p. 24.

188.
Leveritt,
Devil’s Knot
, p. 295.

189.
Ibid., pp. 295–297.

190.
Hackler, “Complete Fabrication.”

191.
Lisa Fancher, “Vicki Hutcheson, Rock and a Hard Place,” http://blog.myspace.com/almosthomevol1.

192.
Mara Leveritt, “Arkansas, Scalia and Thomas Would Execute Despite Innocence,” Aug. 20, 2009, http://maraleveritt.com.

193.
Amy Berg,
West of Memphis
, Sony Pictures Classics, 2012.

194.
Leveritt,
Devil’s Knot
, p. 281.

195.
Hill, http://jivepuppi.com/recent_additions.html.

196.
Davison and Moore, “Statement of Facts in Support of Defendant Natalie Pasdar’s Motion for Summary Judgment,” p. 91.

197.
Hackler, “‘They Messed with My Words.’”

198.
Hackler, “Complete Fabrication.”

199.
Hackler, “‘They Messed with My Words.’”

200.
Hill, http://jivepuppi.com/Terry_Hobbs.html.

201.
Davison and Moore, “Statement of Facts in Support of Defendant Natalie Pasdar’s Motion for Summary Judgment,” pp. 19, 94, 96–97. For copies of the depositions, see http://callahan.8k.com/hobbs_pasdar/hp_38.html.

202.
Hill, http://jivepuppi.com/Terry_Hobbs.html. For the facts in support of the summary judgment in favor of Pasdar, see http://dpdlaw.com/pasdarfacts2009.pdf.

203.
Arkansas Take Action press release, “New Eyewitnesses: Three Boys Last Seen with Terry Hobbs.”

204.
Ibid.

205.
George Jared, “Ark. High Court Given Affidavits About WM3 Case,”
The Jonesboro Sun
, Oct. 15, 2009, http://wm3org.typepad.com/blog/2009/10/ark-high-court-given-affidavits-about-wm3-case-2.html.

206.
Ibid.

207.
Ibid.

208.
Ibid.

209.
Hill, http://jivepuppi.com/recent_news.html.

210.
Mara Leveritt, “New Evidence in West Memphis Murders,”
Arkansas Times
, July 19, 2007, http://arktimes.com/gyrobase/new-evidence-in-west-memphis-murders/Content?oid=868140&sgiwFullText=true.

211.
Damien Echols Defense Team press conference.

212.
Leveritt, “New Evidence in West Memphis Murders.”

213.
George Jared, “Where’s Stevie?,”
The Jonesboro Sun
, Oct. 21, 2009.

214.
Hill, http://jivepuppi.com/Terry_Hobbs.html.

215.
Jared, “Ark. High Court Given Affidavits About WM3 Case.”

216.
CNN wire staff, “‘West Memphis 3’ Freed in Child Killings After 18 Years,” Aug. 20, 2011, http://cnn.com/2011/CRIME/08/19/arkansas.child.killings/index.html?hpt=hp_11.

217.
Dodd, “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?,” p. 92.

218.
Leveritt,
Devil’s Knot
, p. 313.

219.
Kurt Orzeck, “Peter Jackson’s West Memphis 3 Doc Reveals New Allegations,”
The Wrap
, Jan. 20, 2012, http://thewrap.com/movies/article/peter-jacksons-west-memphis-3-doc-reveals-new-allegations-34623.

220.
Ethan Anderton, “‘West of Memphis’ Documentary Reveals Three New Key Witnesses,” Jan. 20, 2012, http://firstshowing.net/2012/west-of-memphis-documentary-reveals-three-new-key-witnesses/.

221.
Orzeck, “Peter Jackson’s West Memphis 3 Doc Reveals New Allegations.”

222.
Leveritt, “The ‘Big Ask,’” p. 11.

223.
Ibid.

224.
In “Hollywood Directed Defense, Challenged Old Case Against ‘West Memphis Three,’” Marc Perrusquia quotes prosecuting attorney Scott Ellington as saying, “These defendants, the state believes, could very easily have been acquitted.”

225.
Berg,
West of Memphis
.

226.
Leveritt, “The ‘Big Ask,’” p. 11.

227.
John Lyon, “Case Put Justice System to Test,” [Fort Smith, Arkansas]
Southwest Times Record
, Aug. 28, 2011.

228.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School, http://law.cornell.edu/wex/alford_plea.

229.
Mara Leveritt, “FLASH: West Memphis 3 Freed in Plea Bargain,”
Arkansas Times
blog, Aug. 19, 2011, http://arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2011/08/19/flash-west-memphis-3-freed-in-plea-bargain-on-1993-murders.

230.
Dodd, “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?,” p. 98.

231.
Leveritt, “The ‘Big Ask,’” p. 13.

232.
David Koon, “Jason’s Choice,”
Arkansas Times
, Aug. 24, 2011, p. 15, http://arktimes.com/arkansas/jasons-choice/Content?oid=1888400.

233.
Dodd, “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?,” p. 92.

234.
David Lohr, “‘West Memphis Three’—Convicted of Killing Boy Scouts—Free After Serving 17 Years in Prison,”
The Huffington Post
, Aug. 19, 2011, http://huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/west-memphis-three-free_n_931449.html#s333742&title=Craighead_County_Court.

235.
Leveritt, “The ‘Big Ask,’” pp. 12–13.

236.
“Chronology of Events,” http://callahan.8k.com/custom3.html.

237.
Leveritt, “The ‘Big Ask,’” p. 13.

238.
Koon, “Jason’s Choice,” p. 14.

239.
Leveritt, “The ‘Big Ask,’” p. 13.

240.
“Chronology of Events.”

241.
Campbell Robertson, “Deal Frees ‘West Memphis Three’ in Arkansas,”
The
New York Times
, Aug. 19, 2011, http://nytimes.com/2011/08/20/us/20arkansas.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Deal+frees+west+memphis+three&st=nyt.

242.
Leveritt, “FLASH: West Memphis 3 Freed in Plea Bargain.”

243.
Mike Fleming, “2012 Sundance: Q&A with ‘West of Memphis’ Producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh,”
Deadline
, Jan. 18, 2012, http://deadline.com/2012/01/2012-sundance-qa-with-west-of-memphis-producers-peter-jackson-and-fran-walsh/.

244.
MSNBC staff and news service reports, “Convicted Child Killers Freed After Plea Change,” Aug. 19, 2011, http://msnbc.msn.com/id/44199686/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/convicted-child-killers-freed-after-plea-change.

245.
Arkansas Take Action press release, “The West Memphis Three Are Free,” Aug. 19, 2011, http://freewestmemphis3.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=266:the-west-memphis-three-are-free&catid=37:press-releases&Itemid=83.

246.
Ken Kamins, Jackson’s manager, quoted in Chris Nashawaty, “Peter Jackson Still Seeking Justice for West Memphis Three—EXCLUSIVE,”
Entertainment Weekly
, Aug. 23, 2011, http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/08/23/peter-jackson-west-memphis-three-investigation-exclusive/.

247.
Mara Leveritt, “Jason and the Warden,” Jan. 8, 2008, http://maraleveritt.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Jauss is the author of five books and the editor or coeditor of three anthologies. He has published nearly four hundred essays, short stories, and poems in magazines and anthologies and has received numerous awards for his work. He teaches creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and in the low-residency MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. A longtime supporter of the West Memphis Three, Jauss met Damien Echols in 2005; over the next six years he transcribed, edited, and archived Echols’s writings, and conducted interviews that have become the basis for the appendix in
Life After Death
. Jauss has also worked for Arkansas Take Action, a grassroots organization dedicated to the release and exoneration of the West Memphis Three.

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