The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Rodney Reed a chance for a new trial, nearly four years after halting his execution and ordering the trial court to weigh whether Reed might be innocent in the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. | via TexasTribune
Supporters held a rally at the governor's mansion in 2019 to protest the execution of Rodney Reed.
“Even if all of Reed’s post-trial evidence is taken into account, Reed still has not demonstrated that he is more-likely-than-not innocent of Stacey’s murder,” wrote Judge Jesse McClure in the 7-1 ruling.In rejecting Reed’s claims of innocence, the high court accepted the 2021 recommendation of retired state District Judge J.D. Langley. Jane Pucher, one of Reed’s attorneys with The Innocence Project, condemned the ruling in a statement Wednesday and said they “will continue to fight for Mr.
Both men have been accused of multiple sexual assaults. Reed was indicted, but never convicted, in several other rape cases. Fennell spent 10 years in prison after he kidnapped and allegedly raped a woman while on duty as a police officer in 2007. In recent years, Reed’s attorneys have presented witnesses who corroborate that he had a relationship with Stites and others who said Fennell was abusive toward Stites or that he suspected she was having an affair with a Black man. Reed’s legal team also brought forward pathologists who said Stites was likely killed before the time Fennell told police she left their home for work, when she was alone with him.
In its extensive ruling, the Court of Criminal Appeals went through each aspect of evidence raised by Reed and the state over the decades of litigation, picking apart the credibility of evidence that could point to a consensual relationship between Stites and Reed to testimony that implicated Fennell as her killer.
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