Tag: prosecutor Greg Davis

A Texas Prosecutor Dedicated to Death Row
(“Invisible Intruder,” Forensic Files, and “Darlie Routier,” The Last Defense)

After the past two posts about the unfair treatment Darlie Routier has received at the hands of the criminal justice system, it seems only natural to provide some intelligence on Greg Davis.

I was hoping to find something scandalous or incriminating about the Texas prosecutor, who still clearly takes pride in having landed Routier on death row in connection with the 1996 stabbing deaths of two of her little sons — a crime she has always blamed on an unidentified assailant.

Davis discussed the case on camera in the Forensic Files episode “Invisible Intruder” in 1999 and in the series The Last Defense in 2018.

He and Routier’s other detractors have consistently used personal smears against her: She was “self-centered” and “materialistic,” she was grieving in an undignified manner, she gave the babysitter a wine cooler, she got DDD breast implants, and so on.

But what about Davis himself? Does this millennial-era Oliver Cromwell have any impurity in his past?

Well, much to my disappointment, nothing obvious.

The only official trouble that popped up was an action from 2010, when a grand jury indicted Davis, then a Collin County assistant district attorney, on charges of tampering with a government record.

The matter involved allegations that some DA’s office employees falsified information to indicate they were working on official business when they were actually campaigning for a district clerk.

But a judge granted a motion to quash the indictment against Davis in January 2011.

After new Attorney General Greg Willis took office that same year, Willis chose not to retain Davis. But Davis quickly got a new job, as deputy first assistant DA in McLennan County. He served under District Attorney Abel Reyna.

Davis exited that job in 2014. He left on his own accord, and no accusations of misbehavior turned up on internet searches. But the announcement merited a number of negative reader comments, including:

“Sherry Moses  Greg Davis is more of an ass than an asset. I don’t know how he can live with himself for putting an innocent woman on death row. God will be his judge.”

“Barry Green Being part of the Henry Wade administration and obtaining almost two dozen death penalty verdicts is a resume I would not want.”

As of 2014, Davis had helped put 20 people on death row, and several have been executed. (The conviction of at least one of them, Albert Leslie Love Jr., was reversed, in 2016.)

TV station KWTX in Waco reported that “Davis is said to be the most successful capital murder prosecutor in the state of Texas.”

Davis has said he believes there’s a good chance Routier will be executed, which would leave her surviving son motherless.

The next big news about Davis hit in 2017, and it sounded positive (sorry).

The FBI was investigating ex-boss Abel Reyna because he allegedly “dismissed criminal cases for his friends and major campaign donors for political and personal gain,” according to the Waco Tribune-Herald on November 10, 2017.

In an affidavit, Davis indicated that Reyna’s corruption was the reason he chose to leave the job. (Reyna lost his reelection bid in 2018.)

So, it looks as though Greg Davis — who is now a retiree living in the Dallas area — is basically a narrow-minded individual but with some integrity.

And to his credit, in his TV appearances, he seems earnest and not particularly in love with the sound of his own voice.

Just the same, if anyone knows of any skeletons in this guy’s closet, I’m all ears.

That’s it for this post. Until next week, cheers. — RR

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Watch the Forensic Files episode about Darlie Routier on YouTube or Amazon Prime