somebody with forensic evidence or somebody in law enforcement, police officer. gannon is an expert at postmortem forensic analysis and he discovered something else surprising. blood had settled on top of stacey s arms and face, even though her body had been lying face up. she had to be face down for a period of almost two hours for that blood to settle. that shows that the victim was deceased for a period of time somewhere else, was probably moved. at rodney s trial the medical examiner had testified that stacey was killed between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m. but looking at the crime scene video, gannon believes her time of death was much earlier. all of a sudden, when they moved her and they let her go the head fell back to the right all by itself. and then about 20 more minutes into the video, the elbow bent, the wrist flopped. so at that point i said, oh my
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so that part of our defense could not be presented to the jury. i was expecting people to come. i was expecting to be going home once they testified. they aren t seeking the death penalty, and we are not putting up witnesses, we re not putting on a defense? that s not right. my attorneys are getting billed to defense. i just kind of felt trapped. i was really upset. as for the assault victims that prosecutors presented during sentencing, rodney had only faced trial in one of those cases, and in that trial, he was acquitted. the complaining witness in the case where rodney was found not guilty, they brought her in to testify. that verdict was so intellectually and factually and ethically wrong. when i left the courtroom, i cried. rodney reed spent four years
my mother, she s my heart. i just want him home. he s lost so much, but if he s home, you know, and god forbid he can live a good life. the court only stayed the execution and so we are still in a land of uncertainty. harris county executes more people than any other state in the country, but texas is also one of the leaders in the country in wrongful convictions. if the state was to execute me, they ve made murders out of themselves. i m an innocent man. he needs a new trial, and at that new trial, rodney reed will be found innocent. in 2013, texas passed a law addressing convictions tainted by faulty scientific evidence, which may provide an opening for rodney. the thought of rodney reed
incarceration, jimmy had nothing to do with stacey s murder. fennell, he was a cop. he s a bad cop. he was then apparently, and he is now, but that doesn t mean he killed her, you know. if we had evidence to convict him of the rape and murder of stacey stites, believe me, he would have been in jail a long time ago for that crime. to take an item and place it around her neck and pull with the force that it took to strangle her, jimmy fennell did not do that. it did not happen like that. if i could say something to rodney, i would probably say i forgive you, but you deserve what the state of texas will be doing to you, and that is ending your life. in addition to stacey s murder, reed was charged with two additional sexual assaults after dna linked him to previously unsolved rapes, and many see a pattern in rodney s