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The Arkansas Supreme Court said a judge wrongly denied a request for new genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the killing of three boys nearly 30 years ago.

Damien Echols said he expects to receive the needed transcripts of a recent hearing this week, “unless the judge deliberately stalls for time.”

The request had been filed by Damien Echols, one of three men convicted in the 1993 murders of three 8-year-olds. Attorney say he will appeal the decision.

A hearing Thursday will consider a request for new DNA testing by one of three men convicted of the murders of three 8-year-old West Memphis boys.

A prosecuting attorney is asking a judge to deny a request by Damien Echols for modern DNA testing of evidence.

Echols, one of three people convicted in 1994 of killing three 8-year-old West Memphis boys, has filed a petition for the state to conduct DNA testing of evidence.

The West Memphis Police Department has 30 days to respond to a lawsuit by Damien Echols who says he was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of three boys.

Ten years ago today, three men convicted of brutally beating three, 8-year-old West Memphis boys to death were released from prison after being…