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The Latest in the Rodney Reed Case

By Steve Hall

Jordan Smith reports, "Rodney Reed Case Back in Court," for the latest issue of the Austin Chronicle.The legal procedural drama that is the Rodney Reed death penalty case is back in federal court. On Dec. 22, 2009, lawyers for Reed filed a whopping 158-page brief in federal district court, laying out all the reasons Reed deserves a new day in court.Reed was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1996 murder in Bastrop of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. The state said that Reed, while on foot, somehow overcame Stites as she drove to work for an early morning shift at H-E-B and that semen DNA found in Stites proves the state's case. Reed's defenders say the DNA evidence is only proof that the two were intimate and that in fact Reed was having a consensual relationship with Stites...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).