well, the most logical culprit of that, if it s not an intruder, would be the husband or darin. in addition to defending darlie, doug mulder had represented darin in his gag order case. we ve alleged in several appellate pleadings that mr. mulder was suffering from a conflict of interest. at the time that doug mulder represented darlie, he had a continuing duty to protect darin. i was in the room when mulder and darin had that conversation. darin had said, you know, well, i don t want them going after me because i didn t do anything. and mulder said, well, you didn t do anything. i don t see any reason to go after you. and that was that. be very difficult to point a finger at darin when the person on trial said my husband s not involved. at that time, that was just absurd to me.
i stand behind darlie 150%. i know she didn t do it. i know all the millions of little pieces of this puzzle that will come out in the trial. after their radio interview, darlie s mother and darin were handed subpoenas after violating orders not to talk about the case. they hired douglas mulder who also agreed to take on darlie s case. it s an interesting case, and i m going to look forward to trying it. i m very happy. he s the best. mulder s fee was $250,000. and the routiers scrambled to raise all the money they could. we started selling everything in the house. all our family members started taking their children s college funds. we sold everything. greg davis was the lead prosecutor assigned to the case. the only real announcement we made today was that the state will be seeking the death penalty in this case.
texas who in the course of litigation, the only three people who took the fifth amendment were the two lead detectives and the court reporter. the question for cooper was, why hadn t mulder shown this second videotape to the jury? i don t know why they didn t show the tape. greg davis said, put it in if you want, but they never did put that portion in. i think it was a huge mistake not to show the jury this memorial service. i think it would have effectively nullified any impact the silly string video had. as he continued to build darlie s appeal, cooper was confronted with another question. why had mulder never raised darlie s husband darin as a possible suspect? let s be practical about this. there are two adults in this house and two dead children. and darlie is sliced and cut and beat severely.
after darlie routier was sent to death row, her family quickly ran out of money to pay her attorney douglas mulder. we had a sign a paper after she was convicted that for two year if we did any movies or books or whatever we owed him the balance. as an appellate lawyer, you get the transcript of the trial and work from the transcript, strictly in what s on the page. in this case, what was on the page was erroneous in large parts, and we had a lot of issues in reconstructing the trial transcript. the trial transcript had over 30,000 mistakes.
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