When I started blogging on here, I promised myself that I wouldn't post memes, funnies or ads for other sites. But then I found despair.com -
and felt compelled to break my promise.
Now I just have to choose which to have framed above my desk at work.
OK, so I know that technically you already are "mine", but I was looking for an image to make a personalised e-Valentine out of and I saw this cutie. Happy Valentine's Day sweetie.
We finally had some snow, on Friday - about three inches of it in 12 hours. Unfortunately, we then had 12 hours of rain and a sudden increase in temperature, and by the time I finally got round to taking photos, it had all gone !Luckily, some local Flickr users were not quite so slow off the mark !
Could this be the news supporters of the West Memphis Three (myself included) have been waiting for ?
"The lawyer for Damien Echols, one of 3 West Memphis teens convicted of killing 3 little boys in 1993, says new DNA evidence will be presented soon. Echols, who's on death row, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelly were all convicted for the murders of Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch and Michael Moore.
Today, Echols' attorney, Dennis Riordan from San Francisco California, {said that} the results of new DNA evidence are "significant." "Mr. Echols was someone from day one pushing very hard to get these DNA testing done because he thought it was important to his case and he was always a proponent. I think we have results that are going to shed significant light on the case," says Riordan. 
For those unfamiliar with the case, I'd strongly suggest you read Maria Leveritt's book, Devil's Knot, to see the great injustice served to these teenage boys, who were convicted of killing three young boys back in 1993. No evidence ever linked them to the killings, the deciding factor being a "confession" from one of the teenagers, Jessie Misskelley, who was quizzed by police through the night (the police taped just 2 hours of their interviews) and was judged at the time to have a mental age of 5.
The police and prosecution (and defense) kept vital evidence, such as bite marks, from the court, and ignored any other avenues of likely guilt, such as the habitually criminal stepfather of one of the boys, John Mark Byers. During the trial, filmed by HBO for the documentary "Paradise Lost", Byers also gave his hunting knife to the film crew - the knife was found to have human blood stains on it, which Byers denied any knowledge of.... but which were never tested for DNA and were destroyed in the initial tests.
Hopefully, the DNA testing will vindicate Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin - and point the finger firmly in the direction of the real killer.
When I started blogging on here, I promised myself that I wouldn't post memes, funnies or ads for other sites. But then I found despair.com -and felt compelled to break my promise.
OK, so I know that technically you already are "mine", but I was looking for an image to make a personalised e-Valentine out of and I saw this cutie. Happy Valentine's Day sweetie.
For those unfamiliar with the case, I'd strongly suggest you read Maria Leveritt's book, Devil's Knot, to see the great injustice served to these teenage boys, who were convicted of killing three young boys back in 1993. No evidence ever linked them to the killings, the deciding factor being a "confession" from one of the teenagers, Jessie Misskelley, who was quizzed by police through the night (the police taped just 2 hours of their interviews) and was judged at the time to have a mental age of 5.
