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Additional News Coverage of Rodney Reed Hearing

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Molly Bloom reports, "Rodney Reed's lawyers tell appeals court that he deserves a new trial," in the Austin American-Statesman.If a Bastrop County jury had heard all of the evidence in the 1998 trial of Rodney Reed, the jurors would never have convicted him of raping and killing 19-year-old Stacey Stites and given him the death penalty, Reed's lawyers told the state's highest criminal court Wednesday morning.  Reed is awaiting execution for killing Stites, whose body was found on the side of a Bastrop road in 1996. Reed has said the two were having a secret affair even though Stites was engaged to former Giddings police officer Jimmy Fennell Jr. when she was abducted, raped and strangled. "This court can do what it needs to do to correct a miscarriage of justice," Morris Overstreet, one of Reed's appeal lawyers and a former state appeals court judge, told the nine-member Texas Court of Criminal Appeals...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).