The Devil's Knot and the West Memphis Three

             One would believe that justice is found in every law and in every
             courtroom, and judges and jurors are the perfect tools to demonstrate such
             fairness on every situation. However, not all people receive fair trials
             regardless of gender, race, ethnic background or religion as established by
             the American judicial system. For example, throughout decades millions of
             innocent people have been accused, arrested, tortured, put to trial, and
             persecuted for the practice of witchcraft and Satanism.
             In her book Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three, Mara Leveritt
             recounts the story of three eight year old boys that disappear on one night
             and are found dead on near by stream the following day. In her book she
             describes the atrocities done to this kids and gives an accurate account of
             all the things found in the scene and how three teenagers are accused of
             the crime. Although there was little evidence left at the crime scene, the
             investigators were able to find sufficient reasons to charge the defendants
             The inspectors and investigators negligence is one of the factors that
             leads them to form speculations. For example, in the exposition of the case
             investigator Gitchell decides to interrogate all of the families. When the
             Byers are called to testify, Ryan ,the brother of one of the victims,
             recounts the story of what happened that night. In his narration of the
             events he tells the police that when his family did not find Christopher,
             they went to search for him and on that evening he went to the woods with
             his friends to search for his brother, and when he returned home at
             midnight his father had sent him to bed. Furthermore, the police interviews
             Mark Byers ,Christopher's stepfather. In his interrogation he gives the
             same details that Ryan gave except for one thing: he told the police that
             when Ryan returned home they both went to search for Christopher. The
             officers obviously...

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