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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Stacey Stites was just 19 when she was killed in Bastrop, Texas. • 33 min read The 20/20 Event Special airs Friday at 9|8c on ABC Rodney Reed sits on death row for murdering Stacey Stites. Her family believes the right man is in prison. Now, hear from Reed's family & new lawyers – the stunning 20/20 airs Friday at 9|8c on ABC.Carol Stites Stacey Stites was weeks away from marrying her fiancé when she went missing. Just 19 years old at the time, Stites didn’t show up for work one morning in 1996, and was ...

Queens state Supreme Court Justice Joseph Zayas called the notes “abhorrent” and “a smoking gun” of discrimination. “The document explicitly instructs prosecutors to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion and ethnicity, all in clear violation of well established constitutional law,” he said. Both sides in a trial are allowed to eliminate a certain number of potential jurors without giving a reason, in what are known as “peremptory challenges.” But a 1986 U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibits prosecutors from excluding prospective jurors solely because of their race,...

An appeal hearing for death row inmate Rodney Reed has been rescheduled once again for May after initially being moved from September to February.  Reed, who was convicted of capital murder in 1998 for the strangulation death of Stacey Stites in Bastrop County two years earlier, has now been scheduled for an appeal hearing on May 17 in the 21st District Court in Bastrop County, according to court records. Reed has maintained his innocence and is seeking to overturn his conviction. In a phone interview, Rodney Reed’s brother Rodrick said that according to Reed’s legal team, this seco...

Defense. >> he was pulling from the same play book in that case in 1987 when he was first asked about it he denied the rape completely, and it was only after he was tied to it by dna that he started to tell a whole different story that he was having sort of a secret affair with her. >> that jury gave him a second chance. they believed him. i think most people don't know the whole story of rodney reed. they don't know that the only reason he was caught is because he tried to do it again, and she was just lucky enough to get away. >> benjet feels these other accusations should not determine reed...

Cooperating with the investigation. >> investigators had trouble placing fennell at the scene of the crime because of the distance between bastrop and his apartment in giddings. >> just a simple logistics of it didn't work. the problem was, how jimmy could have possibly gone with stacey that morning, murdered her, left the truck in bastrop next to the railroad tracks and then somehow gotten back home in time to be back in bed, when stacey's mom called him at 6:30. and it didn't work. >> when benjet looked for additional evidence on fennell, he discovered that contrary to standard procedure, po...