Posted on 05/21/2003 11:06:51 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
Routier appeal rejected
05/21/2003
AUSTIN - The state's highest criminal court Wednesday upheld the conviction of Darlie Routier, a homemaker in the Dallas suburb of Rowlett who was arrested two weeks after her sons were killed in 1996.
In a 75-page, unanimous opinion, the Court of Criminal Appeals rejected claims by Routier's attorneys that her conviction should be reversed because the record of her 1997 trial was plagued with inaccuracies and prevented her attorneys from raising important legal questions.
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That conflict kept the attorney from pointing to the husband, Darin Routier, as a possible suspect in the stabbing deaths of Routier's two sons, her attorney has said. Darin Routier has not been charged.
Damon, 5, and Devon, 6, were killed in their home June 6, 1996. An infant son in another room was unharmed.
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A Kerrville jury convicted Routier for Damon's slaying and sentenced her to death by lethal injection.
She has maintained her innocence and claims an intruder attacked her and the boys, then fled through the garage of the home.
I suspect you're making all this up. James Ragland did do two articles on the 10th anniversary. He was full-time on the case ten years ago.
He, of all people, would be on anything that might change the case.
That he isn't tells me you're inventing out of thin air.
Ragland did do the 2 columns, the 2nd of which was based on a phone interview w/ Routier's mother, and there was the 1 article by the Metro section Rowlett homer whose name escapes me atm...
I'm not calling anybody.
I remember this case, and I agree with you 100% on that.
http://www.fox.com/mdmystery/103/routier.htm
Link doesn't work.
What is Darlie's husband doing these days? ReMarried yet?
"Her family, Mother, Mother in Law, Husband all are convinced of her innocence"
Darlie appeared to be narcisstic.Her mother and her husband were enablers. They both are a piece of work from what I saw of them. I still don't understand how the father of the children can defend their murderer.
What is Darlie's husband doing these days? ReMarried yet?
well I hope so if they could afford it with that booming cpu chip business, and recent yeah they were kids, only on earth for several years so that qualifies as recent.
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