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More Forensic Testing Granted in Routier Case

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That's the headline of a report in today's Dallas Morning News concerning the case of Darlie Routier.  The article is written by Tiara Ellis.  LINK For the second time in five months, convicted child killer Darlie Lynn Routier has been granted the right to more forensic testing of evidence in her effort to prove that an intruder killed her two sons in 1996. This month, a federal judge granted additional testing of a bloody sock; new forensic testing of a butcher knife presented in the original trial as the murder weapon, as well as new testing of fibers from another knife; and permission to run four fingerprints through a national database. His decision, which was signed Nov. 5, piggybacks a state appeals court decision in June to allow her defense team to test some pubic and facial hairs...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).