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    Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three

    February 24, 2017
    [The prosecutor] is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done. As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the lag, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer…
    - Berger v. U.S., 295 U.S. 78, 88 (1935) (Justice Sutherland delivering the opinion of the Court)


    The eighteen-year saga of the West Memphis Three began on May 5, 1993, when three eight year-old boys (Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers) were reported missing in the town of West Memphis, Arkansas. The boys’ bodies were discovered hogtied in a drainage ditch. They had been beaten to death; one boy, it seemed, had been muti

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    Devil's Knot

    *A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH*

    The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted…and set free. Do you know their story?

    In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt’s The Devil’s Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three.

    For weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas seemed stymied. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers—alleged members of a satanic cult—with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical ev

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    Devil's Knot (film)

    2013 American film

    Devil's Knot is a 2013 American biographicalcrime drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and adapted from Mara Leveritt's 2002 book of the same name. The film is about the true story of three murdered children and three teenagers, known as the West Memphis Three, who were convicted of killing the three children during the Satanic panic. The teenagers were subsequently sentenced to death (Echols) and life imprisonment (Baldwin and Misskelley), before all were released after eighteen years.[6]

    The film was produced by Elizabeth Fowler, Richard Saperstein, Clark Peterson, Christopher Woodrow, and Paul Harris Boardman. The film stars Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Dane DeHaan, Mireille Enos, Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, Stephen Moyer, Alessandro Nivola, Amy Ryan, and Martin Henderson.

    The film premiered at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8.[7][8][9] It had a limited release