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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 murdered by her abusive fiancé, Jimmy Fennell; and that Fennell, who at that time was a police officer in Giddings, Texas, had framed Reed for the murder. Numerous witnesses testified that testified that they had seen Stites together with Reed on prior occasions, heard Fennell threaten to kill her if she cheated on him, and heard Fennell admit to the killing. Two forensics experts testified that Stites died hours earlier than the prosecution had claimed, at a time that Fennell had sa ....
State calls on law enforcement witnesses in Rodney Reed hearing State calls on law enforcement witnesses in Rodney Reed hearing The State starts to make its case by bringing in several law enforcement who either worked with Jimmy Fennell or were involved in the investigation. BASTROP, Texas - Friday was the first day for the state to begin to make their case. Their first witness was Renae Duncan, whose husband worked at the Bastrop County Sheriff s Office back in 1996, the year Stacey Stites was murdered. The rest of the day consisted of law enforcement officers. They also called in Nathan Lapham who worked at the Giddings Police Department with Jimmy Fennell but was not involved in the Stites investigation. He said he was not aware of any complaints against Fennell at Giddings PD. ....
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 Reed s trial in the late 1990s in which he was convicted of capital murder, and instead was part of the evidence Reed s lawyers presented to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2019, prompting the court to halt his execution five days before he was set to die. The court ordered a hearing, which began Monday in Bastrop County, to review the new evidence that Reed s lawyers say casts doubt on his conviction. ....
BASTROP Rodney Reed’s defense team presented witnesses Wednesday who contradicted prosecutors’ assertions that Stacey Stites did not know Rodney Reed and that she was killed earlier than they say she was. Reed received the death penalty after he was convicted in 1998 of Stites strangulation. Stites body was found by the side of a rural road in Bastrop County on April 23, 1996, with Reed s sperm inside her. The hearing on Wednesday in state District Court in Bastrop was ordered by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2019 after defense attorneys presented new evidence they said exonerated Reed. The hearing started Monday and is expected to run two weeks. ....