Directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky filmed a 1994 documentary called Paradise Lost on the West Memphis Three, about three teenagers convicted of murder.
Berlinger is best known for the breakthrough film series "Paradise Lost," which documents the murder trial and the subsequent legal battles of three teenagers wrongfully convicted of murder.
Gov. George E. Pataki yesterday signed into law a bill requiring stiffer sentences for teenagers convicted of murder after being tried as adults.
The judge said Hobbs had voluntarily injected himself into a public controversy over whether three teenagers convicted of killing the three 8-year-old boys had been wrongfully condemned.
Acalanes was in the news in 2006 because of the incarceration of Scott Dyleski, the teenager convicted in the murder of Pamela Vitale.
A court hearing has been delayed for six weeks for the five teenagers convicted in the 1989 rape of the investment banker who came to be known as the Central Park jogger.
Three of the five teenagers convicted in the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park steadfastly maintained their innocence at parole board hearings.
The five teenagers convicted in the gang beating and rape have served their sentences.
All three teenagers convicted were released on August 19, 2011.
Forty-five states passed or amended legislation to send not only violent young offenders, but also teenagers convicted of burglary and drug offenses, into the adult system.