<body><div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=380HM5_0lmiZzF600" style="display:none" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=380HM5_0lmiZzF600" width="1920" height="1080" ><div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox" scrolling="no" src="https://abc13.com/video/embed/?pid=13110243" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div> The sentencing trial began Monday for a former Katy-area football coach convicted twice of fatally shooting his pregnant wife during what authorities say was a staged burglary more than 24 years ago. <a href="https://abc13.com/david-temple-belinda-katy-texas/5665846/" rel="nofollow"> David Mark Temple, 54, was convicted in August 2019 </a> for a second time for killing his wife, Belinda. But that jury could not decide on a sentence, <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate><a href="https://abc13.com/david-temple-heather-belinda-murder/5444299/" rel="nofollow"> prompting a judge to declare a mistrial </a> . Prosecutors had sought a life prison term. A new resentencing trial for David Temple, who is being held in the Harris County Jail, was delayed in part by the coronavirus pandemic. Authorities said Belinda Temple, 30, was fatally shot in her home on Jan. 11, 1999, in what was initially believed to be a burglary. <a href="https://abc13.com/timeline-david-temple-accused-of-killing-his-pregnant-wife/5355207/" rel="nofollow"> TIMELINE OF DAVID TEMPLE TRIAL: Twists and turns from 1999 killing to 2019 verdict </a><div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox" scrolling="no" src="https://abc13.com/video/embed/?pid=5447537" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> The murder of Belinda Temple: Timeline Prosecutors later accused David Temple of staging the burglary at his suburban Houston home and fatally shooting his wife, a high school teacher who was eight months pregnant, because he was having an affair. David Temple later married the woman he'd been seeing. He had been a football coach at Alief Hastings High School and wasn't charged in the killing until five years after it happened. READ MORE: <a href="https://abc13.com/david-temple-trial-houston-texas-retrial/5450374/" rel="nofollow"> True crime writer remembers Belinda Temple after husband found guilty in her 1999 murder </a> "He has been found guilty of it. So, the whether (he did it) has been resolved. Now ... what are you going to do about it?" Lisa Tanner, a special prosecutor with the Texas Attorney General's Office, told jurors during opening statements on Monday. <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> But Stanley Schneider, one of David Temple's attorneys, suggested to jurors his client's guilt had not been settled and that he planned to "explore some of the police investigation." "He told the police he didn't kill his wife. He said that on Jan. 11, 1999, and he said that continuously since that time," Schneider said. A jury initially convicted David Temple of murder in 2007, but Texas' top criminal court overturned that conviction in 2016 because prosecutors had withheld evidence. After the conviction was overturned, the special prosecutors were assigned when the Harris County District Attorney's Office recused itself over a conflict of interest. David Temple's second wife filed for divorce in the middle of his retrial in 2019. <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> Defense attorneys have argued a teenager who lived in the Temples' neighborhood was the killer. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://abc13.com/david-temple-pregnant-wife-murdered-in-katy-jury-selection-belinda/13079166/" rel="nofollow"> Jury selection starts in re-sentencing trial of Katy man convicted of killing pregnant wife in 1999 </a><div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox" scrolling="no" src="https://abc13.com/video/embed/?pid=13079158" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div> The former football coach was 30 years old when he murdered his wife in their Katy home. He was convicted in 2019 and has waited years to find out his punishment. This year, he turns 55. <nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate></div></body>

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A new jury will decide if David Temple, convicted twice in his pregnant wife's death, will face another life sentence after the last jury couldn't unanimously decide.