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Rodney Reed (pictured) presented four days of testimony in a Bastrop County courthouse in an attempt to establish his innocence of the murder of Stacy Stites, as activists, religious leaders, and members of Reed’s family rallied in support of his case. The hearing, which is expected to take two weeks, began on July 19, 2021, with Reed’s case for innocence. His lawyers presented evidence that Reed, who is Black, was having an affair with Stites, who is white; that Stites was actually murde...

BASTROP — Defense attorneys for Rodney Reed continued to call witnesses to the stand Tuesday to bolster their theory that it was not Reed who killed 19-year-old Stacey Stites over two decades ago, but rather her fiancé, Jimmy Fennell.   The testimony shared this week was not presented during Reeds trial in the late 1990s in which he was convicted of capital murder, and instead was part of the evidence Reeds lawyers presented to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2019, prompting the...

BASTROP — Defense attorneys for Rodney Reed continued to call witnesses to the stand Tuesday to bolster their theory that it was not Reed who killed 19-year-old Stacey Stites over two decades ago, but rather her fiancé, Jimmy Fennell.   The testimony shared this week was not presented during Reeds trial in the late 1990s in which he was convicted of capital murder, and instead was part of the evidence Reeds lawyers presented to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2019, prompting the...