West Memphis Three Trial Essay

The West Memphis Three Trial is a Trial that involved three eight year old boys that were murder. These boys names were Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore. The murders of the three boys are suspected to be by three teenage boys. The suspected teens that supposedly committed the murders were Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley. All three of these boys fit the description of who murdered the three boys.(1)
Later the three teenaged boys were arrested by police for murdering these three eight year old boys. The teenagers were sentenced to life in prison, all except Damien Echols, he had a death sentence. He was the only one out of the three to be ordered a death sentence because it was believed that he was the one
One was for Jessie Misskelley and the other was against Echols and Baldwin. During the Misskelley trial, here’s what happened. The first witnesses that were called upon, was each of the teenaged boys mothers. They were then questioned. Each mother had to describe the last time that they each saw their boys on May 5, 1993. After all questions were asked to the mothers, the prosecutor, John Fogleman, showed the jury many pictures from the crime scene. Fogleman wanted to prove that Jessie was not apart of the crime, so he had Lisa Sakevicius who is in a crime lab investigate the scene. In her findings she found green polyester fiber on one of the murdered boys, that traced back to some similar fiber that was in Damien’s house. There was also a red rayon fiber that was found at the scene that again was traced back to another article of clothing that belonged to Damien. To testify for Miskelley was Gary Gitchell. He was the one who questioned Jessie during the interrogation. Gitchell explained that Misskelley remained very calm during the whole interrogation. During the questioning though, Jessie did fail to explain the story correctly and got some of the important details incorrect. For example one of the details that he got wrong was the time of the killings. Misskelley said that they took place close to noon, not at night.