EXHIBIT A-IOI - West Memphis Three Case - Document Archive

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Copyright 1994 Sentinel Communications Co.
Orlando Sentinel (Florida)
February 5,1994 Saturday, 3 STAR
HEADLINE: JURy CONVICTS TEEN-AGER IN DEATHS OF 3 BOYS, ALL 8
DATELINE: CORNING, ARK.
BODY:
A teen-ager was convicted on Friday in the slayings ofthree 8-year-old boys but was spared the death penalty by a
jury that rejected the most serious charge, capital murder. Jessie L. Misskelley Jr., 18, was found guilty offlfst-degree
murder in the death ofMichael Moore. He was convicted ofsecond-degree murder in the deaths ofthe other two boys,
Steve Branch and Chris Byers. The three boys, all second-graders, disappeared from their West Memphis neighborhood
May 5. Their nude, battered and hogtied bodies were found the next day. Misskelley was the flfst ofthree teens to be
tried in the killings. Damien Echols, 19, and Charles Jason Baldwin, 16, face trial later.
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LOAD-DATE: February 5, 1994