... Throughout the 10-month-long hearing, continuing on and off since last May, Echols' new defense attorney, Edward Mallett of Houston, has maintained that a wound over the left eye of the Branch child is a human bite mark. A dentist called ...

... DNA testing for establishing the presence of unknown persons at the time and place of the murders," Echols lawyer Edward Mallett of Houston said. The victims' clothing and other material in the area where the bodies were discovered are among ...

... first set of lawyers. A third defendant, Jessie Misskelley Jr., was convicted in a separate trial. Houston lawyer Edward Mallett's first line of attack was to ask Burnett to take himself out of the hearing and let an independent judge hear the ...