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 155 of 297<br />
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SECTION: Section 1; Page 7; Column 2; National Desk<br />
LENGTH: 255 words<br />
Copyright 1994 The New York Times Company<br />
The New York Times<br />
February 5, 1994, Saturday, Late Edition - Final<br />
HEADLINE: Youth Is Convicted In Slaying of 3 Boys In an Arkansas City<br />
BYLINE:AP<br />
DATELINE: CORNING, Ark., Feb. 4<br />
BODY:<br />
A teen-ager was convicted today in the slayings ofthree 8-year-old boys from <strong>West</strong> <strong>Memphis</strong>, Ark. He was spared<br />
the death penalty by a jury that rejected the most serious charge, capital murder.<br />
The teen-ager, Jessie Lloyd Misskelley Jr., 18, was found guilty offrrst-degree murder in the death of a boy whom<br />
he had admitted chasing down. He was convicted ofsecond-degree murder in the deaths ofthe other two boys.<br />
Late this afternoon, Judge David Burnett ofCircuit Court sentenced Mr. Misskelley to life and 40-year sentences<br />
to run consecutively, virtually insuring that he will spend all his life in prison. The frrst-degree murder conviction carried<br />
a maximum penalty oflife in prison. The second-degree murders carried a maximum penalty of20 years each.<br />
Two other defendants are to be tried later.<br />
The victims, Steve Branch, Chris Byers and Michael Moore, all second-graders, disappeared from their <strong>West</strong><br />
<strong>Memphis</strong> neighborhood on May 5. Their bodies, nude, battered and hogtied, were found the next day.<br />
Mr. Misskelley told the police in two tape-recorded interviews that he had watched as his two friends beat the boys,<br />
raped two ofthem and castrated one. The prosecution said the slayings might have been part ofa Satanic ritual.<br />
The case was tried in Clay County Circuit Court in this Northeast Arkansas town about 100 miles from <strong>West</strong> <strong>Memphis</strong><br />
after Mr. Misskelley's court-appointed lawyer requested a change ofvenue.<br />
The two other defendants are Damien Echols, 19, and Charles Jason Baldwin, 16.<br />
LOAD-DATE: February 5, 1994
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