An open letter from Lorri Davis,
wife of Damien Echols
Dear Friends & Supporters:
Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin have spent their entire adult lives in prison for a crime they
did not commit. They were tragically convicted based on innuendo, fear and hysteria.
Over the last several years—and particularly the last several months—we have been overwhelmed by the support
and generosity of longtime friends and people just learning about this case. Shortly after we made the new evidence
public, a group of supporters in Arkansas began organizing to put political pressure on the Governor, Attorney General
and District Attorney.
Thousands of people, many of them in Arkansas and Tennessee, came forward to demand that the new evidence be fully considered.
In October '07 a 500-page motion was filed in federal court.
This motion includes DNA testing on dozens of pieces of evidence, analysis from the nation's leading forensic science
experts, other solid scientific evidence and compelling witness affidavits—all evidence indicating that all three
of these, now men, are innocent of the murders for which they were mistakenly convicted in 1993.
Thank you—to so many of you, thank you: Thank you for everything you have already done. Without your help, we would
not be on the verge of finally securing justice for Damien, Jessie and Jason.
We urgently need more of you: we need your help to make sure this evidence is fully considered. With your help, this
strong scientific evidence will have its day in court and we can right a terrible, terrible wrong.
If you need more information to help you understand this tragedy, to help convince others (or maybe even yourself),
a wealth of information awaits you via the links you'll find here.
Use the links here to go out and learn if you need to. Then come back, contact us, help us.
Thank you so very much,
Lorri Davis and the defense teams for Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Miskelley.
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Powerful News
Educate · Educate · Educate
The Phenomenal crew at wm3.org was
the first organization on the net to take up that cause of the innocent West Memphis Three. Massive amounts of
information can be found on their site under their News/Events section.
A FAQ sheet about the many alternative ways to help is here.
Mara Leveritt, award winning journalist, exposes
brilliantly the travesty of this case in her book, Devil's
Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, available online at Amazon.com.
We urge you to pick it up and read every paragraph, including her illuminating notations. An
interview with Mara about the case and her book can be read here.
A Call to Action from Natalie
Maines of The Dixie Chicks.
A wealth of information can also be found by visiting:
— a
site dedicated to Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore.
You'll find here, for instance, a convincing synopsis of—
callahan.8k.com — the
complete document archive of the case.
Additional compelling data—
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