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I'm surprised nobody's posted this yet...
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/aug/30/new-tests-on-crime-scene-fibers-produce-no-link/
So there goes the fibre "evidence".
In another twist of the West Memphis Three case, defense attorneys said Thursday new testing excludes the only crime scene evidence prosecutors had to convict defendants Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley in 1994 a series of tiny clothing fibers.
Testing completed in May by three experts including a former FBI crime lab scientist found serious flaws in government's fiber testing conducted in 1993-94, Baldwin's attorney, John T. Philipsborn, wrote in a letter to Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.
"What is disturbing and clearly indicative of the problematic evidence that the State introduced in the Baldwin/Echols trial, is the clear evidence that the State's fiber evidence was flawed,'' Philipsborn says in the letter dated Aug. 28. The letter says evidence linking fibers found at the crime scene to clothing seized in Echols' and Baldwins' homes "is demonstrably unreliable and incorrect.''
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/aug/30/new-tests-on-crime-scene-fibers-produce-no-link/
So there goes the fibre "evidence".