EXHIBIT A-IOI - West Memphis Three Case - Document Archive
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<strong>Case</strong> 4:09-cv-00008-BSM <strong>Document</strong> 30-5 Filed 07/17/2009 Page 148 of 297<br />
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Copyright 1994 Chicago Tribune Company<br />
Chicago Tribune<br />
March 19,1994 Saturday, NORTH SPORTS FINAL EDITION<br />
HEADLINE: 2 TEENS CONVICTED IN SLAYINGS OF 3 ARKANSAS BOYS<br />
DATELINE: JONESBORO, Ark.<br />
BODY:<br />
Two teenagers were convicted Friday ofkilling three boys who were abducted and brutally beaten while on a bike<br />
ride through their neighborhood.<br />
Jurors deliberated a little less than two days before convicting Damien Echols and Charles Jason Baldwin ofthree<br />
counts each of capital murder. They face the death penalty or life without possibility ofparole.<br />
Echols, 19, and Baldwin, 16, were convicted ofkilling <strong>West</strong> <strong>Memphis</strong> 2nd-graders Steve Branch, Chris Byers and<br />
Michael Moore.<br />
The three 8-year-olds disappeared May 5 while riding their bicycles near their homes in their <strong>West</strong> <strong>Memphis</strong><br />
neighborhood. Their bodies were pulled from a drainage ditch the next day.<br />
The boys reportedly were tied up and beaten.<br />
Echols and Baldwin were arrested June 3 after a friend, Jessie Lloyd Misskelley Jr., made incriminating statements<br />
to police.<br />
Misskelley, 18, was convicted last month ofone count offIrst-degree murder and two counts ofsecond-degree<br />
murder. He is serving a prison sentence oflife plus 40 years.<br />
The jury that convicted Echols and Baldwin will begin deliberations Saturday to determine whether they should be<br />
sentenced to death or life in prison.<br />
During their trial, prosecutors presented evidence suggesting Echols was a devil worshiper and Baldwin was his<br />
loyal follower.<br />
Witnesses testifIed that both bragged about the killings.<br />
LOAD-DATE: March 19, 1994
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