Echols v. State

Appellant Damien Wayne Echols has filed a motion for continuance of the oral argument scheduled for September 19, 2002, and a motion for a stay of the proceedings on appeal pending the outcome of a petition for forensic DNA testing, currently before the Craighead County Circuit Court. After due consideration of the motions and the response from the State, we hereby grant a stay of the proceedings on appeal for a period of sixty days, to allow the trial court to consider the petition.

The procedural history of this case is quite lengthy. Echols, along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley,…