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While HBO has followed the case of The West Memphis 3 throughout three different documentary films, it’s director Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil) and producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh who have delivered the definitive chronicle of a tragic misstep in our country’s justice system. West of Memphis starts at the very beginning with the murders of Christopher Byers, Steven Branch and Michael Moore in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas and the impending convictions and trials of accused killers (then just young boys) Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. But they aren’t guilty in the least. ›››

Continue reading: Sundance 2012: ‘West of Memphis’ An Infuriating Look at Injustice