AM 1450 KMMS - Bozeman's News Talk Leader » west memphis three http://kmmsam.com Wed, 22 May 2013 01:28:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 New 'West Memphis Three' Documentary and Feature Film in the Works [VIDEO] http://kmmsam.com/west-memphis-three-documentary-film/ http://kmmsam.com/west-memphis-three-documentary-film/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:55:00 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=39020 Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. — who’ve been dubbed the West Memphis Three — were released from prison on Friday after serving 18 years as the result of what many felt was a wrongful 1994 murder conviction.

Their startlingly sudden freedom had an especially profound impact on filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. The pair made two award-winning HBO documentaries about the case, ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Lost 2,’  and are working on a third — with a much happier ending than originally planned.

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In a somewhat confusing arrangement with prosecutors, the men entered the guilty pleas while maintaining their innocence and were sentenced to time served and a 10-year suspended sentence.

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