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Wasn't one of Mullis's points on appeal, ineffective council?
GUILTY IA - Amy Mullis , 39, Earlville, killed with corn rake, 10 Nov 2018 *Arrest*
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I did a little refresher reading. The issue Todd Mullis had with his council was they wanted to claim Amy was murdered, just not by Todd. Which when I heard that in opening statements I thought was the craziest thing any defense attorney could say. Apparently Todd wanted to claim Amy's death was an accident.
The appeal on this was denied since Todd apparently testified Amy was murdered.
Click link at bottom to open PDF of full appeal decision: Case No. 20-1173 | Most Recent Court of Appeals Summaries | Iowa Judicial Branch
The appeal on this was denied since Todd apparently testified Amy was murdered.
Click link at bottom to open PDF of full appeal decision: Case No. 20-1173 | Most Recent Court of Appeals Summaries | Iowa Judicial Branch
Good point! I remember following this trial and thinking that a wife of one of her lovers killed her. The nail clippings definitely should be tested!
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Some interesting points made by Todd's new attorneys in this latest article about his post conviction relief. His new attorney says the prosecutor was good friends with Amy and should have recused himself from the case. She says the Sheriff dept should have done the same. Not sure why she thinks the Sheriff dept should have recused themselves, since the article does not say,
I heard talk that Amy had or was having several affairs that were not mentioned during the trial, one being with a Delaware County Sheriff deputy. If the affair with a deputy was true, that was kept quiet by the Sheriff dept and prosecutor for obvious reasons. No sense ruining one of their owns life by exposing such a thing. Maybe this is why the attorney say's the Sheriff dept should have recused themselves. Amy did work at the local hospital in the ER if IIRC and would have been in contact with Sheriff personal on a regular basis. JMO
The attorney blames the medical examiner for classifying the manner of death incorrectly when it was said Amy death was a homicide.
Two medical examiners looked at her body. The state forensic pathologist was called when it was noticed the different wounds from the corn rake took different paths in her body and there were more wounds than the four tines on the corn rake.
My assumption has been that Amy fell against the rake that was leaning against the wall, then fell onto the rake after it fell on the floor. Bizarre but probable. She died while trying to crawl out of the barn and was found on her hands and knees with the rake stuck in her back. The blunt force trauma injuries she received could have been from her fall. I don't think the Sheriff dept did any investigation in the barn since they originally may have thought this was an accident. And after her death was classified as a homicide no one bothered to look for evidence in the barn that would have disproved that this was a homicide. JMO
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I heard talk that Amy had or was having several affairs that were not mentioned during the trial, one being with a Delaware County Sheriff deputy. If the affair with a deputy was true, that was kept quiet by the Sheriff dept and prosecutor for obvious reasons. No sense ruining one of their owns life by exposing such a thing. Maybe this is why the attorney say's the Sheriff dept should have recused themselves. Amy did work at the local hospital in the ER if IIRC and would have been in contact with Sheriff personal on a regular basis. JMO
The attorney blames the medical examiner for classifying the manner of death incorrectly when it was said Amy death was a homicide.
Two medical examiners looked at her body. The state forensic pathologist was called when it was noticed the different wounds from the corn rake took different paths in her body and there were more wounds than the four tines on the corn rake.
My assumption has been that Amy fell against the rake that was leaning against the wall, then fell onto the rake after it fell on the floor. Bizarre but probable. She died while trying to crawl out of the barn and was found on her hands and knees with the rake stuck in her back. The blunt force trauma injuries she received could have been from her fall. I don't think the Sheriff dept did any investigation in the barn since they originally may have thought this was an accident. And after her death was classified as a homicide no one bothered to look for evidence in the barn that would have disproved that this was a homicide. JMO
Todd Mullis' attorney reveals new details around alleged mistakes in original murder trial
DELAWARE COUNTY, Iowa (KWWL) -- Todd Mullis was convicted in 2019 for the murder of his wife, Amy, but his attorneys now say that investigators made some serious mistakes.