Echols v. State

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case was first decided on March 19, 1994, when a jury found petitioner Damien Echols guilty of brutally murdering three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis on May 5, 1993. Echols appealed these capital murder convictions, and this court, on December 23, 1996, in a 77-page opinion in appellate case number CR94-928, affirmed that conviction. See Echols v. State, 326 Ark. 917, 936 S.W.2d 509 (1996) (Echols I). This court issued its mandate to the circuit court. Echols petitioned the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, which that Court denied on May 27,…