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For 18 years the West Memphis Three appealed their case and every time Judge David Burnett denied those appeals and he refused to speak about the case or the men. outside of the courtroom.

For 18-years the so-called "West Memphis Three" appealed their case.  For 18-years, Judge David Burnett denied those appeals and refused to speak about the case or the men outside of the courtroom.  That is until now.

Oscar nod for West Memphis 3 film angers parents Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 05:58 p.m., Tuesday, January 24, 2012 (AP) — The parents of two of three Arkansas boys who were murdered in 1993 said they're disappointed that a documentary about the killings and the three ...

DAVID BURNETT Could be interesting. State Sen. David Burnett of Osceola, the judge in the West Memphis 3 case, who was decisively overruled in a landmark Arkansas Supreme Court ruling, is going to talk at length on the case tonight on KAIT-8 in Jonesboro. Burnett has not fared well in documentaries of the case and more are on the way. So you wouldn't expect him to say at this point that he's ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb 1 (TheWrap.com) - Colin Firth has signed on to star as Ron Lax, the private investigator whose detective work helped get three men who had been convicted of murder released from prison in Arkansas, the producers of the "Devil's Knot" told TheWrap Wednesday. Lax "really is the unsung hero of this story," producer Elizabeth Fowler said. The West Memphis Three are Damien Echols ...

Jalen Jackson hit a driving layup with 17.1 seconds left in overtime to give West Memphis a 57-56 victory over Marion.

In 1994, three teens were convicted of the murder of three boys in West Memphis, Ark. The trial drew national attention, due in part to the HBO documentary series Paradise Lost . The "West Memphis Three" appealed their convictions and were released from prison in August 2011.

Last year, the West Memphis 3 pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the deaths of the three eight-year-old boys in a deal that set them free, but they also said they were innocent. Now they hope new information pointing to another person will be enough to prove they're not killers.

When we started to hear about West of Memphis, the new documentary about the West Memphis Three (Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley) produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, and directed by Amy Berg, the big question was: what will this movie offer? The movie was born out of an investigation funded by Jackson and Walsh that seeks to find the real identity of the killer who ended ...

Lawyers for a doctor who was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 2009 bombing that nearly killed a West Memphis physician argued Wednesday that there wasn't enough evidence to convict him.