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Rodney Reed

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Also in today's Austin American-Statesman, "Attorney files to submit more evidence in death row case."The attorney for death row inmate Rodney Reed filed a motion Wednesday asking an appeals court for a new trial because of what he cited as new evidence against a former suspect in the murder of Stacey Stites. Bryce Benjet, Reed's attorney, said the new evidence about Jimmy Fennell Jr., Stites' fiancé at the time, includes what Benjet said was Fennell's personal Web site that contains sexual content and violent images. Reed is on death row for the 1996 strangling of 19-year-old Stites in Bastrop County, but Reed's attorney says Fennell, then a Giddings police officer, should have been investigated more thoroughly as a suspect...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 17, 2008 (boomark / email).