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====Retrial request==== While in prison, Echols wrote letters to Gloria Shettles, an investigator for his defense team.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0712/19/lkl.01.html| title = CNN Larry King Live-Damien Echols Death Row Interview}}</ref> Echols sought to overturn his conviction based on trial error, including juror misconduct, as well as the results of a DNA Status Report filed on July 17, 2007, which concluded "none of the [[DNA|genetic material]] recovered at the scene of the crimes was attributable to Mr. Echols, Echols' co-defendant, Jason Baldwin, or defendant Jessie Misskelley .... Although most of the genetic material recovered from the scene was attributable to the victims of the offenses, some of it cannot be attributed to either the victims or the defendants."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wm3.org/live/newsevents/newsitem.php?index=1&news_Id=131|title=DNA TESTING CONCLUDES|access-date=July 22, 2007|publisher=wm3.org|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823193448/http://www.wm3.org/live/newsevents/newsitem.php?index=1&news_Id=131 |archive-date=August 23, 2007}}</ref> Advanced DNA and other scientific evidence β combined with additional evidence from several different witnesses and experts β released in October 2007 had cast strong doubts on the original convictions. A hearing on Echols' petition for a writ of [[habeas corpus]] was held in the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.<ref>[http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=41551 Echols' Attorneys File New Motion Claiming Wrongful Conviction In 'West Memphis Three' Case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203181807/http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=41551 |date=December 3, 2013 }}, American Chronicles, accessed October 5, 2015.</ref>
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