Three men convicted in the 1993 killings of three 8-year-old Cub Scouts in West Memphis, Tennessee are due in court on Friday, August 19, 2011. Speculation is that two of the three may be released. Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin will be in court Friday, August 19, 2011 in Jonesboro, Tennessee.
The three men were convicted in 1994 of killing Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore and leaving their bound bodies in a water-filled ditch in West Memphis. Echols was sentenced to death while Misskelley and Baldwin received life sentences. The three asked for a new trial on the grounds that DNA evidence exonerates them.
