The Docket 08.15.24: West Memphis 3 attorney Dan Stidham
the true crime that's worth your time
Back in 1993, Dan Stidham began representing Jessie Misskelley Jr., one of the West Memphis 3 defendants -- and never gave up on his promise to free his client. Now a judge, Stidham spoke to me at length about the Alford plea that freed Misskelley, Jason Baldwin, and Damien Echols in 2011; why the state of Arkansas took "the cowardly way out"; the many criminal-justice concepts the WM3 case introduced to a wider public; why Satanic-panic theories keep coming up; and Stidham's own theory of what may have befallen the three victims. (And the siren song of diet Coke, of all things.)
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