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Jordan Smith of the Austin Chronicle has provided some of the most comprehensive news coverage of developments in the Rodney Reed case over the years.  The Court of Criminal Appeals' recent decision is the topic of her latest, "No Relief for Rodney Reed."Reed's case has been wading through the courts for nearly 10 years; his defenders have consistently questioned whether prosecutors withheld potentially exculpatory evidence. After a 2006 hearing on the matter in a Bastrop Co. district court, Judge Reva Towslee Corbett (whose father presided over Reed's original trial) concluded that there was not credible evidence to suggest the state had done anything wrong. In part because the judge simply adopted whole the findings of fact provided her by the state at the conclusion of the hearing, the CCA took up Reed's appeal to decide whether certain inaccuracies in those conclusions were enough to trigger some relief for Reed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).