CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A former Ft. Campbell soldier convicted of taking part in an execution-style shooting at a Clarksville Taco Bell will be back in a Montgomery County courtroom today.
In September, Judge Norma McGee Ogle ordered the case of 39-year-old David Gene Housler sent back to Montgomery County Circuit Court. Ogle concluded that Housler’s attorneys failed to challenge several aspects of a plea agreement that collapsed and testimony against Housler.
Housler, who along with another former soldier, Courtney B. Matthews, were convicted of first-degree murder for the 1994 slayings of Kevin Campbell, Patricia Price, and Angela Wyatt and Marsha Klopp at the Riverside Drive Restaurant in 1994.
Ogle’s ruling upholds a decision by Judge John Gasaway.
A official with the court told Clarksvillenow.com, it appears the state appeals court will request the preliminaries for the trial be put off until December.
See details of the crime in the appeal filed in September 2013.
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