The Innocence Project and Darlie Routier

[cami]

As an update, according to the court site

https://obpublicaccess.dallascounty.org/PublicAccessEP1/CriminalCourts/

Case number F9639973

There were status hearings on the DNA testing on:
4/01/2022
5/16/2022
7/13/2022
8/26/2022
10/19/2022

But no forward movement noted. The next status hearing is scheduled for 12/2/2022.

The last of the orders for release of items to be DNA tested was on 12/15/2021. We're approaching a year since items were turned over to Vanessa Potkin yet there has been no update on the official Innocence Project website - not even a status update.

So what's going on? Is this simply a stalling tactic or has the testing revealed nothing that would exonerate Darlie? There is still no - zero - news in msm to indicate that the IP is working on Darlie's case. Why aren't they shouting from the rooftops?

Stull waiting. There is a stats update on March 31, 2023, that's if they ever get there, there have been several continuances. Yes it's just stall tactics. Some of the test results should be available by now.

 

[Zzzz]

This is never going to end, because it's just a continual stall. Everything has been tested and retested over and over. I don't think the state of Texas really wants all the publicity of putting Darlie to death, so they are just going to let her supporters continue to pour money into endless testing. She's not getting out, so it doesn't really matter. But the lawyers have found a gold mine.

 

[Springrain]

This is never going to end, because it's just a continual stall. Everything has been tested and retested over and over. I don't think the state of Texas really wants all the publicity of putting Darlie to death, so they are just going to let her supporters continue to pour money into endless testing. She's not getting out, so it doesn't really matter. But the lawyers have found a gold mine.

Honestly I agree at this point. She's clearly guilty (in my and most people's opinions). There's been a billion tests, it is what it is. It's ridiculous, but if her supporters want to waste all their time and $$$ with testing, whatever, because it's been done before and she is not getting out thankfully.

 

[LolaAngelina]

So IP was never taking her case then? I was shocked when l saw the title of this post. There’s really very little doubt that she killed her kids. There’s literally thousands of other cases IP could take on before even looking at this

 

[nannymo]

Has it been established IP is not taking her case? How does one find that information?

 

[nannymo]

Active Cases Archives - Innocence Project of Texas They only have 3 cases listed as active. Darlie is not one of them, but the following message is on their website:
"These represent a small selection of our active cases. Many of the cases we take on cannot be discussed publicly."

BBM

 

[nyvictoria]

One would actually have to be innocent for the IP to take on a case. Clearly, Darlie is not. IIRC it wasn’t the IP who took her case. It was an attorney who was associated with the IP.

 

[cami]

The IP is working with Darlie's appellate lawyer. They got involved in my opinion because she has been sentenced to death and they are now advocates for ending the Death Penalty because her case doesn't fit their criteria. Here is the article that states what they are doing. The DNA testing has ended, long ago. and they are now asking for fingerprints again.

https://www.altoonamirro

r.com/news/local-news/2021/10/additional-dna-tests-ordered-for-routier/

Take it all with a grain of salt, most of that evidence they are talking about in this article has been DNA tested again and again as DNA improved. The bloody fingerprint blood and several other pieces of evidence have been YSTR tested for unknown male dna and none was found.