Reprinted from Arkansas Times, Oct. 24, 2012 Family Council president Jerry Cox opposes the ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana. “It’s a family values issue,” he said. So, let’s talk medicine, marijuana — and, especially, family values. I began suffering undiagnosed leg pain in childhood. At 17, my doctor’s best advice was to take aspirin [...]

This report, written when Howard’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 [...]

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 [...]

$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 [...]