HOUSTON -- Attorneys for a former high school coach and Katy football star convicted of killing his pregnant wife will be back in court to argue for a chance to present new evidence they say shows their client is innocent.
David Temple was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 for the 1999 shooting death of his wife, Belinda. She was eight months pregnant at the time. Prosecutors accused him of staging the crime to look like a burglary and killing his wife because he was having an affair with another woman, whom he later married.
An appeal is pending before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
A hearing before state District Judge David Mendoza is scheduled for Monday in Houston on whether Temple s attorneys will be able to present the new evidence, which they say are statements that point to another person as the killer.
The defense says the real killers were four teens, including a then 16-year-old neighbor,originally questioned by police. Three of the four original suspects failed polygraph tests and gave investigators different stories, according to Temple s attorneys.
They also claim prosecutors hid this valuable piece of evidence from them.
Attorneys for the four men call those allegations a legal charade.
The people they are accusing have nothing to do with this, said Paul Doyle, attorney. They are trying to ruin other people s lives knowing their client committed this murder.
