Help stop the execution of innocent Darlie Routier!

Darlie Routier was covicted of murdering 1 of her 2 kids that were killed in 6/6/1996. She was sentenced to death in 1997 and has been on death row 16 years now. Her trial was more of an ambush than a trial to find the truth. After the trial was over, evidence that was not allowed to be shown to the jurors was made public which made 8 of the 12 jurors state that they made a terrible mistake in convicting her.

Some of the evidence that was not allowed is;

1. The chief detective never took any written notes, recorded note or video notes. He relied on his memory on what he was told during the entire case? Part of this fact was brought out in court but 90% of the defense attorney's questions were sustained?

2. The crime scene was supervised by a 2 year experienced finger print tech? Prior to sealing the scene over 75 people were in and out of the entire house, moving items, police vomiting indoors and walking though the blood. The fingerprint tech collected all of the DNA by putting all of the different clothes in the same brown grocery sack while still wet? This allowed blood from one item to get on another item and is the biggest no-no in collecting DNA? (This actual case is used around the country to train police in what NOT TO DO when securing a crime scene and collecting DNA from a crime scene)

3. The police interviewed Darlie 15 minutes out of emergency surgery, wrote no notes or recorded anything but stated in the trial that she changed her story 10 days  later when they interviewed her at the police station. When asked on the stand did they actually think Darlie was still under drugs from the surgery that police said 15 minutes was more than enough time to recover from any drug she had been given? Since no recordings or notes were taken how does the public know what was said?    
  
4. The Asst. D.A. who prosecuted Darlie stretched the truth in several areas of this case along with strong arming the states witnesses to lie. The D.A. threatened 2 doctors to say Darlie's wound were self inflicted after both had stated and currently state they WERE NOT self inflicted wounds. The D.A. encouraged the police officers to plead the fifth on questions that would have damaged the states case. The D.A. stated they had lost over 25 documents that they were supposed to give the defense, they were found after the trial?

5. The D.A. prosecutor was fired, after another case a year later, for hiding evidence, mis-stating the truth (LIE) and for presenting false documents into trial. He was indicted on all three charges but was given 1 year probation? After his probation was over and he got his license back he went to work in the Waco D.A.'s office.

6. The chief investigatoror this case had a 19 year old son that had been convicted in the death of a 13 year old girl. He drove by the girls house and shot her and she was killed instantly. This was a month earlier than Darlie's 2 sons being murdered. The son was out on a $2,500 bond at the time the murders happened, the sons car matched the description of the car given by Darlies neighbors during the evening of the murders and last but not least he matched the size and build of the person that neighbors saw. By the way, after Darlies conviction the investigators son got 5 years PROBATION for the 13 year old girls murdered? Of course the D.A. was the same?

7. The mayor of Rowlett, where Darlie and he sons were attacked, is a nicer where houses average in the range of 1-4 million dollars. At the time of these murders a big new expansion was being done to attract people to move to Rowlett, the town took out print and media ads stating the low crime rate, etc. The mayor had stated right after this crime that he sure hoped it was Darlie that killed her sons and not a killer on the loose because it would look bad to future residents. By the way, let me say that this mayor had been convicted on federal charges a few years earlier but the case was sealed so no one knows what he did? Another point is since Rowlett is right on the lake, the mayor, D.A. and the chief investigator were all fishing buddies? The judge that heard the case was biased as he hunted with 3 of the police officers who testified for the state? Good ole buddy system at its finest?


These are just 6 of the 100 or so facts that the juror's got to see or hear. An ex FBI crime scene specialist with 18 years experience in murder cases and crime scenes, who now is in private practice, was on the witness list for the derense but was not allowed to testify because he had been in the court room during other parts of the hearing? The judge ruled that he should not know what the states withess he as an advantage of disputing the 2 year experienced finger print tech? The ex FBI specialist was going to state, and still states, that the crime scene was not staged, the DNA that was collected could not be used as they were all put in the same bag while still wet, the angle of Darlie's wound proved Darlie's wounds could not have been self inflicted, the investigator blotched the entire case due to no notes and no recordings and a dozen more things that he was going to contest. Why was he not allowed to testify when there was a persons life at stake?

I am not related to Darlie nor do I even know Darle. I came across her case while viewing Texas death row inmates and noticed that the crime was committed very close to where my office was. I investigated some more and read several articles and then I came across her lawyer's website and her moms website. I read the entire trial transcripts over the next 7 days, looked at all crime scene photos, Darlie's medical reports, the M.E.'s report on both boys and just about everything else I could find. After all of this reading and researching this case, I can say that Darlie Routier is 100% innocent and she got lied to and ambushed by the entire police force of Rowlett.

I am a normal Texas man and yes I DO believe in the death penalty in certain cases but I DON'T believe in putting to death an innocent person. The governor should pardon her at once but if not, then order a new trial and allow all of the evidence so jurors can make an informed decision. I will close with a statement made by one of the jurors in this trial, "I do not understand why we were not allowed to see all of this evidence? I now know that Darlie is innocent of this crime and I fear my decision of guilty and death, will haunt me the rest of my life."    
        
Please sign this petition and pass it own to all of your family and friends. We cannot allow an innocent person to be put to death! Please help!