Innocence Project Statement in Response to Arkansas Supreme Court Ruling in Damien Echols’ DNA Testing Request
Innocence Project Statement in Response to Arkansas Supreme Court Ruling in Damien Echols’ DNA Testing Request
Mr. Echols, along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley of the West Memphis Three, have been wrongly convicted for the last 30 years.
Breaking News 04.18.24
by Innocence Staff
![Patricia Young, Ledell Lee's sister, holds a memorial image of her brother. [Matt White/Innocence Project]](https://innocenceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Ledell-Memorial-image-scaled-1.jpg)
![Members of Ledell Lee’s family and legal team, from left: John E. Tull (Quattlebaum, Grooms & Tull PLLC), Cassandra Stubbs (ACLU), Nina Morrison (Innocence Project), Shantel Young (sister of Ledell Lee), Stella Young (mother of Ledell Lee), Patricia Young (sister of Ledell Lee), Kaitlin Welborn (Hogan Lovells US LLP), Olivia Ensign (ACLU), and Hollly Dickson (ACLU of Arkansas), following the filing of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in state court on behalf of Patricia Young in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Jan. 23, 2020. [Matt White/Innocence Project]](https://innocenceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/IMG_3075-scaled-1.jpg)
![Ledell Lee. [Courtesy of the Young family]](https://innocenceproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Ledell-Lee-5B-e1493070983340.jpg)
