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Evidence In The Darlie Routier Case

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It was a dark and windy night in the town of Rowlett, Texas. On June 6th, 1996, Darlie Routier and her sons Devon and Damon Routier were awaken by the tip of a knife. Although it may sound insane, this was all due to a mother who did not have the patience for the children and valued her appearance more. in the opinion of her friends (Montaldo,2015,1). In reality this woman was sentenced to death row because her whole case was faulty. The evidence in the Routier case was not provided properly and her attorney was not working in her favor. According to Charles Montaldo (2015), “The attorney that presented Darlie Routier, had a pre-arrangement with Darin Routier and other family members not to pursue any defense that could implicate darin” (para.) …show more content…

The Routier’s lived a lavish lifestyle for a while, until things with Darin’s business faltered and brought along financial problems, I guess you could say this would lead people to do some idiotic things like stage a robbery or break in right? Not ideally but “Darin Routier has admitted to trying to arrange an insurance scam, which included someone breaking into their home. He has admitted that he had begun the initial steps to arrange a break-in, but that it was to be done when no one was at home.” And let’s keep in mind that this admission was never presented in the presence of a jury. The jury also never saw detailed pictures of Darlie’s wounds they just know that the necklace she was wearing saved her life (LeTrent, 2015, 1). This gave the prosecutors something to run with, so they took that and persuaded the jury that Darlie caused self-inflicting wounds to herself, and killed her children causing the jury to find her guilty because they were not providing full and thorough evidence. Darlie Routier had no motive to kill her children and cause self-inflicting wounds to herself the way the prosecutors persuaded, but Darin on the other hand had $250, 00 of motive (LeTrent, 2015, 1). This provides sufficient suspicions towards Darin, because he admitted to planning an insurance scam, but of course this was not provided in court due to this pre-arrangement Darin had with the

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