Three weeks later, Echols and Baldwin went on trial. The prosecution accused the three young men of committing a Satanic murder. The prosecution called Dale W. Griffis, a graduate of the unaccredited Columbia Pacific University, as an expert in the occult to testify the murders were a Satanic ritual.[33] On March 19, 1994, Echols and Baldwin were found guilty on three counts of murder.[34] The court sentenced Echols to death and Baldwin to life in prison.[3]