@XxDawgxX - Have you ever spent time in jail or State Prison? I haven't so I really do not know what I would do to get out of there. The men were convicted and then appealed that conviction. I am going to go and read everything I can get on the Trials and investigation because that is about All I know about the case and it sounds like a miscarriage of justice. Forcing them to plead guilty to get out of jail is a little different.

@CanW76-Your absolutly right about them being basically forced to plead guilty to be free, personally I would never do that! I would never plead quilty to a crime I did not commit even if it meant I would sit a rot in prison but there was a life at stake here and Im sure that played a big part. I believe the WM3 are innocent and were a part of false imprisonment. For that the should throw everyone who was involved with the false imprisonment behind bars! However the "LAW" wont continue to look for the real killer cause the WM3 were put in a spot where they plead guilty to go free meaning they will close the case. The system that is put in place to protect us in these kinds of situations is LAZY, theres no money in investigating this crime and finding the real killer, therefore it wont happen. They are too busy out setting speed traps and looking for people not wearing their seat belts, now theres money in that! Congrats WM3, I hope now that your free you can go on with your lives and life to the fulliest but NEVER and I mean NEVER stop fighting to clear your names!!!!!!

The system works just fine, for the system. These guys didnt do the crime but had to pay the time all because of a judicial sytem out of control. Its not the first time and for sure not the last. The Great State of Arkansas just saved its ass is all that just happened. This state doesnt have the amount owed to these guys. Just how much is a year worth these days? Alot if it were you! suckit!

If your on death row you shoul be put to death 2 feet out of the court room within 30 seconds of the conviction. Will any of you that wanted them free let them baby sit your 3 young boys? I didn't think so. People like that don't change. But all you celebrities that went to bat for them need to let them hang out with your kids for a few weeks and see what happens.

Listening to Prosecutor Ellington's prepared statement, I blinked and thought I was listening to AL Core tell how he invented the Internet.

For real Caneman this is the same topic? Aborted babies and murder of boy scouts? Well at least if they're sending the mothers to that hot hell for being too poor to raise children they can't afford they'll have plenty of hot sperm donor dads to send with them- bet its crowded- or maybe we can all live on welfare and mass produce and break our country even faster ohh wait that’s already happened- or better yet we can starve them to death like they do in third world countries when aid is unavailable or you don't qualify because too many are already on it and they need to make cut backs which you don’t control and that mim job can't keep up with inflation- or maybe angles will poop doctor fees and we can suddenly afford birth control and gyn appointments- wait I know we can all move to Mexico since they’re already getting our under the table income to finance the illegal families the us already pays for so we can all go to heaven- --for realcaneman?

well the guilty ones got away again. i feel sorry for the three victims. oh well, GOD KNOWS FOR SURE AND HE WILL JUDGE, NO EXCUSES. jesus saves. kinda like aborted babies. everyones got some kind of excuse to blame everyone but themselves, but God knows and will take care of it all someday. hells hot and eternity is forever. Jesus saves

It time every Arkansas became involved with the InnocentProject.org It may be the only way to protect the integrity of our judicial system. This case was handled emotionally, not factually as it should have been, and Arkansans came close to being party to a lynching.

I am glad these guys have been released but the sad thing is that they can't sue the state for misconduct because they more or less pled guilty for time served. now the state doesnt have to pay them back for all the lost years of their lives.... too sad

No contest, is a nicer form of guilty. I do not think they should have been forced to plead guilty to a crime they didn't do, to gain their freedom! The justice system is so warped sometimes! So, does this mean that they are going to ignore the new DNA evidence they have discovered?! Let the real killers remain out there somewhere instead of the prosecuting attorney's office admitting that they made a terrible mistake! Of course it does! Disgusting!