Brian ChilsonFULL HOUSE: More I'm led to believe. than 1,200 at Statehouse * MOVIE MOMENTS: Two Convention Center for WM3 suggested to me in panel. discussions at Zin with
MENSCH: Scott EllingtonWow. various actors in the drama: The Clinton School of Public 1) That meeting in Attorney Service set up more than 1, General Dustin McDaniel's 100 chairs for our program office, with 15 or so legal tonight on the West Memphis eagles, when the decision was Three case and every single made to move forward on a one was filled and people plea deal; 2) that prison van stood around the perimeter of ride last Thursday, when the room. Misskelley, Baldwin and Impressionistic takeaways Echols were together for the after a post-discussion cool- first time in 17 years. down at Zin, with a warning Misskelley told his lawyer that it's hard to report they talked a little about while you're moderating: sports. Misskelley's attorney, * MENSCH: Scott Ellington. Jeff Rosenzweig, also relayed The Jonesboro prosecutor who a bittersweet moment about signed off on the release informing Misskelley's father deal walked into a lion's den that his son would be coming of WM3 supporters. He home: "For the weekend?" his defended the deal. He father asked. continued to assert his The crowd was heavily belief in their guilt. BUT ... populated by devotees of the . he said he hoped for a WM3 cause. Cheers erupted for crime lab analysis of so-far author Mara Leveritt and unidentified DNA evidence to Arkansas Take Action leader see if it points to a suspect Capi Peck. A relative of in the case. He encouraged Jason Baldwin asked a those with evidence to see question about the ability of the defense team and said the defendants to sue after he'd consider "compelling" the plea deal. evidence. He made a The interest of the victims persuasive case (to me, was mentioned at beginning anyway) that the deal was the and end by me. I think people best way to serve interests confuse justice for those of those who believed in wrongly convicted with either guilt or innocence of injustice for victims. the WM3. He acknowledged this Ellington did a good job of was not the smartest decision explaining how, in a retrial, if politics was your only his first obstacle would be objective. In other words, I two parents of the dead fear this good man may not chiildren as defense run for Congress after all. witnesses who believed the * PROFITS: Capi Peck of wrong people had been accused. Arkansas Take Action said, Capi Peck vowed that the Son of Sam Law or not, Damien probe for the real killers Echols hopes to write about would continue. It's hard to his life story. credit, absent a miraculous * BAD DEAL: Blake Hendrix, DNA find or surprise attorney for Jason Baldwin, confession supported by other spoke critically in public evidence, that a resolution and after about the deal that is forthcoming. But I'm still forced his client to plead a Pollyanna on this one. In guilty to a a crime he Texas, the WM3 would be dead insists he didn't commit, by now. In Arkansas, with the alternative being imperfect as the deal may leaving open the possibility have been, they're free men of death for Damien Echols. and living. Might Baldwin, who told Mara This video will be on the Leveritt he'd like to get a Clinton School website by law degree, ever try to tomorrow or the next day. AP extract himself from this is already up with news of deal under the argument of the event and video. coercion? Not a crazy thought,
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