The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday rejected death row inmate Rodney Reed's latest innocence claims.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday rejected death row inmate Rodney Reed's latest innocence claims. The rejection came four years after the state's highest courtfor the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Lee Stites.
Reed put forth numerous applications for his innocence since his conviction, primarily focusing on Stites's police officer fiancée Jimmy Fennell as the real killer. Reed claimed Fennell killed his fiancée out of jealousy fueled by her secret interracial affair. Reed has been accused of six sexual assaults — and several of those assaults bore similarities to Stites's murder, the court said. In one allegation, his legal defense was that he was having a consensual sexual hidden affair, the opinion said. These allegations showed to the court,"evidence of Reed's extraneous conduct still casts a considerable pall over his claims of innocence.
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