KAUFMAN COUNTY, Texas – In a pretrial hearing this morning, defense attorney's for Charles Brownlow, the man accused of killing five people last year in Terrell, Texas, argued for the preservation of certain evidence suggesting Brownlow may have acted with an accomplice.
KAUFMAN COUNTY, Texas – In a pretrial hearing this morning, defense attorney's for Charles Brownlow, the man accused of killing five people last year in Terrell, Texas, argued for the preservation of certain evidence suggesting Brownlow may have acted with an accomplice.
Brownlow appeared before 422nd District Court Judge B. Michael Chitty this morning, July 24, 2014, at the Kaufman County Courthouse.
The defense argued, in the event an accomplice is brought forward, the evidence should be preserved in order to obtain accurate and untainted DNA samples.
In question were approximately 38 pieces of evidence including, among other things, hair samples, spent projectiles, and bag of ammo. The defense and prosecution will hold a future conference to discuss evidence gathered from a Ford Focus allegedly used by Brownlow at the time of the murders.
Judge Chitty gave the defense team until the next scheduled hearing on August 29, 2014, to advice whether or not there was an accomplice in the murders.
The state's prosecution also mentioned letters written by Brownlow to the Kaufman County District Attorney's Office requesting to speak without his defense team to the District Attorney and the detective in the case.
