'I came out of this the victor by not getting my ass handed to me.'

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^^^ Apologies - above posts were deleted because I meant to edit, but actually kept making a new post with my edits.. This is the final post, completely edited (basically the same as the one Jenkins reponsed to, with the addition of the corrected myth of the softball girls recanting).


The three remain convicted child murderers (thrice)... Inhibiting (thank god) Jason from ever practicing law...

Three convicted child killers... 4-life...

The victims family of course lost the most - knowing the killers of their children served only close to two decades (at least they got the best part of their lives taken from them).

This is one thing most supporters and nons and fencies all agree on - the outcome sucks... I even kind of supported them getting a new trial... Even though I don't believe there was any "new damning evidence" to prove their innocence... Really there was no "new evidence" at all that would contradict evidence the jury heard... Except for the recantation of the one witness, who was useless IMO anyway... Another myth that needs to be cleared up - Michael Carson never recanted... Not even close... He never said anything close to "I lied and made that up," "Jason never told me any of that." He just said he was really *beep* up at the time, and things were kinda hazy, and he was at a really bad place in his life then. Nor did the softball girls recant... Hah, actually Damien admitted he "might have said" something about committing the murders because "it'd be like... you know, a joke"? Yeah, what a knee-slapper - I killed three 8-year old boys.... So Damien perjured himself by admitting that, because on the stand he said that he absolutely never said that.

How am I being a jerk? Just from what I've observed on this board, and the PL boards, anyone that brings up something from the movie is ridiculed and insulted. Someone brings up animal predation, or Terry Hobbs, its a barrage of insults about Johnny Depp this, and HBO that. I guess the purpose of that is to make people not want to come on here? Scott Ellington is not familiar with the case??? *beep* I can guarantee you he knows the case inside and out better than anyone else. He was already practicing law when the first trial happened, and it remains the most infamous murder in Arkansas history, not for one micro second do I believe that claim from him, For one thing, how can he say they are guilty, and then say he is not familiar with the case? He is obviously trying to save face by saying that. But lets say that it somehow was true, Why didn't he then just familiarize himself with it, and then go to trial, like the defense wanted? Time was on the prosecutions side, not the Defense's side. He had all the time in the world to learn the whole case, so why didn't he? You are telling me that rather than do that, he chose to release 3 child killers from jail? So they could kill again someday? Come on, even you can't believe that. Here is another quote from Scott Ellington, from early this year

"I had five jury trials in a six month period of time," Ellington said. "My willingness to go to trial, even on the hard cases, is what led to me being appointed as a full time deputy prosecuting attorney in September 2007. My approach as prosecutor has been the same: we evaluate our docket on a case by case basis; when a case needs to go to trial, we take it to trial; I would rather try a close case and lose rather than to walk away from it."

For a man with that kind of mindset, to back down on retrying the WM3, tells you that he knew the original convictions were BS, and that he had no chance of winning a retrial.

Honestly, I think you're placing too much faith in the justice system to assume they'd never release child killers. I know a few lawyers and unfortunately a few judges as well and most of these people are not doing their jobs out of a sense of civic duty and justice. When you're facing immense pressure from people like Johnny Depp, Peter Jackson, famous musicians, and other powerful people with more hands in the government pot than you might imagine, the decision to release them becomes more than a decision based on evidence. You're deluded if you think these millionaire celebrities don't have a hand in what goes down in our government since campaigns are run on money and elections are won by who you know and who's backing you. Some of you seem a little naive about this.