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Rodney Reed hearing: Lawyers scrutinize time of Stacey Stites' death statesman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from statesman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
BASTROP Prosecutors on Monday attempted to cast doubt on the reliability of new witness testimony in an evidence hearing for Rodney Reed, a man on death row who was convicted of murder in the 1996 slaying of Stacey Stites in Bastrop County. A psychologist testified for hours about how a person s memories are imperfect, and people can confidently say they remember something even if they re remembering it incorrectly. Texas prosecutors asked her to evaluate the reliability of certain types of memories, pulling from details offered in last week s witness testimony. When you spend a lot of time picturing something in your mind, it can seem very vivid. . False memories can be very vivid often much more vivid than true memories, because they’ve been thought on and elaborated so much, said Deborah Davis, a University of Nevada psychology professor who has researched the reliability of memory. ....
State brings in memory expert in Rodney Reed evidentiary hearing The state continues to try and uphold Rodney Reed s conviction The state attempts to discredit the defense s previous witnesses, while Rodney Reed s mother is confident things will go well for her son. BASTROP, Texas - Day six of the Rodney Reed appeal hearing was an attempt by the state to discredit the defense s witnesses. It all began with the state calling in Sergeant Brian Seals from the state attorney general s office. His testimony was trying to question the memory of Richard Scroggins, who testified last week about seeing a photo of Jimmy Fennell in a newspaper article. ....
Rodney Reed prosecutors call on expert to discredit witness memories timesrecordnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timesrecordnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Stacey Stites. None of the H-E-B employees whom police interviewed in 1996 after Stites was killed said that they ever saw Stites with Reed, said Board, who was among the first witnesses for the prosecution. Defense witnesses testified during a hearing this week that they saw Stites, an H-E-B employee, and Reed together at the grocery store before she was killed. One witness also said Stites had told her she was sleeping with a Black man. Reed, who is Black, was sentenced to be executed after he was convicted in 1998 of Stites strangulation death. Stites body was found by the side of a rural road in Bastrop County on April 23, 1996, with Reed s sperm inside her. ....