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		<title>Spokesman challenges focus on Echols as narcissistic; says article blames victim &#8216;again&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://maraleveritt.com/2012/11/spokesman-challenges-focus-on-echols-as-narcissistic-says-article-blames-victim-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Leveritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Perrusquia Reporter cites &#8216;missing element&#8217; in Echols&#8217; new memoir, spokesman argues that article missed key point Last month, the Commercial Appeal  in Memphis published an article about &#8220;Life After Death,&#8221; the new book by Damien Echols. The piece, titled &#8220;Memoir&#8217;s Missing Element,&#8221; was written by Marc Perrusquia, a reporter who has covered the West Memphis murders since since the discovery of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In denying parents’ requests to see evidence, judge cites Ellington’s ‘obligation’ to investigate possible ‘miscarriage of justice’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Leveritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In ruling yesterday on a lawsuit brought by parents of two murdered West Memphis children, Circuit Judge Victor L. Hill wrote that Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ellington does not have to release three affidavits which Ellington claimed are part of an “ongoing investigation.” Hill wrote that Ellington “has the right and the obligation to ascertain whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mom Who Inhaled</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Leveritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted from Arkansas Times, Oct. 24, 2012 Family Council president Jerry Cox opposes the ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana. &#8220;It&#8217;s a family values issue,&#8221; he said. So, let&#8217;s talk medicine, marijuana — and, especially, family values. I began suffering undiagnosed leg pain in childhood. At 17, my doctor&#8217;s best advice was to take aspirin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death row inmate asks judge to decide who his lawyers are</title>
		<link>http://maraleveritt.com/2012/10/benca-seeks-hearing-in-dispute-over-representation-of-howard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Leveritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Howard Court said &#8216;no&#8217; to attorney Howard requested; appointed attorneys want off Howard&#8217;s case; Howard left in limbo Little Rock attorney Patrick Benca filed a motion today asking a federal judge to resolve two pending issues about who will represent death-row inmate Tim Howard. This is the latest in a bizarre series of filings that began when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIMELINE OF HOWARD/BENCA AND FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER BATTLE</title>
		<link>http://maraleveritt.com/2012/10/public-defenders-cite-interference-by-unnamed-third-parties-in-secretive-motion-to-withdraw-from-tim-howard-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Leveritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This report, written when Howard&#8217;s public defenders sought to withdraw from his case, is updated as new documents are presented With Tim Howard, 2011 A motion filed last week by federal public defenders is unusual in itself. It also places several attorneys and a federal judge in an unusual situation. On Oct. 1, I posted the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Tug of war&#8217;&#8212;federal public defenders oppose death-row client in court</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Leveritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Disclosure: I have written about the case of Tim Howard extensively and consider him a friend. This article is based on interviews with him and documents provided by him. The attorneys involved all declined to comment. (The exceptional detail of this article reflects my concern about the ferocity of the fight at its heart: Can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorneys dispute, lab head defends work on WM fibers</title>
		<link>http://maraleveritt.com/2012/09/fiber-reports-further-unravel-case-against-wm3-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2012 13:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Leveritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorneys attack and director defends quality of crime lab’s work ‘Somebody who knew what the hell they were doing would not have made this mistake.’ —Baldwin attorney John Philipsborn ‘I think we’ll have an opportunity to address … these very things.’ —Kermit Channel, the lab’s executive director The West Memphis Three are free and Arkansas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books, films, anniversaries—and still, five kids whose murders lurk unsolved</title>
		<link>http://maraleveritt.com/2012/08/books-films-anniversaries%e2%80%94and-still-five-kids-whose-murders-lurk-unsolved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Leveritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After publication of Devil’s Knot, my second book, my mother said to me: “Hon, if you’re going to write who-done-its, why don’t you tell us who done it?” I told her I wish I could. This week marks two remarkable anniversaries. It links two horrific murder cases that have been the focus of my books. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On anniversary of WM3 release, supporter Peter Jackson calls state inaction &#8216;disgusting&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://maraleveritt.com/2012/08/on-anniversary-of-wm3-release-supporter-peter-jackson-calls-state-inaction-disgusting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Leveritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[$200,000 reward and confidential tip line remain in place (The following press release was provided by Lonnie Soury, a media representative of Damien Echols.) One year after Damien Echols was released from a death sentence and Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley were freed from life in prison, the investigation into the murder of three children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oops! I did it again!</title>
		<link>http://maraleveritt.com/2012/04/oops-i-did-it-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mara Leveritt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I go, publishing yet another letter that the supreme court says can&#8217;t be disclosed &#160; Today, the Arkansas Supreme Court ordered the case of Tim Howard back to circuit court to decide whether he should get a new trial. In a unanimous opinion, the court ruled that Howard&#8217;s claims of prosecutor misconduct at his 1999 trial have &#8220;apparent merit.&#8221; I outlined [...]]]></description>
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