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 Johnny Depp Pipes Up for West Memphis ThreePosted on Feb 23, 2010
Johnny Depp isn’t usually one to seek out the limelight, or “48 Hours Mystery” for that matter, but the “Alice in Wonderland” actor is making an appearance on the CBS News magazine show to make a plea for the retrial of the West Memphis Three, a group of men convicted of murdering three boys in 1994. It’s unclear, from this teaser clip, how Depp became invested in the case, but he’s apparently lending his name to the cause in a bid to prevent the execution of at least one of the accused. —KA CBS:
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By Amber, March 4, 2010 at 10:14 am Link to this comment
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I haven’t heard of this case until the 48 hours mystery show on sunday. From what I have heard and researched I am on johnny depp’s side. Not that there are sides but I am hoping they will let them go. If they have spent 16 years in prison and saying their innocence and you have no physical evidence then what else is there to say. No proof at all. Don’t people know that it’s not by what people only say it’s also about what it is that they can prove. What’s wrong with the government anymore. Always putting some kind of innocent man away figuring out later on that you done wrong. Free the west memphis three. Do what you know is right. That is to let them go.
Report thisBy Gmonst, February 25, 2010 at 12:31 pm Link to this comment
Having followed this case closely since watching the first paradise lost many years ago, this situation continues to break my heart. The innocence of these three is so self evident from the start for anyone who looks at the case closely. I am glad that Johnny Depp is lending his support, along with many other celebrities. There has been an ongoing sustained effort to win these three their freedom. It has really shown the dark underbelly of out criminal justice system in the United States. The judge in the original trial has risen on the back of this case through the Arkansas legal system, and has always seemed to rise to the next position needed to be the presiding judge on appeals, which of course he is against. The facts of this case are a shocker. wm3.org is a good place for information and updates on this very slow moving case.
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