For the third time, an appeal hearing for death row inmate Rodney Reed has been rescheduled in the 21st District Court in Bastrop County.
After initially being moved from September to February, and then from February to May, Reed’s evidentiary hearing has now been rescheduled to July 19, according to court records.
Reed, who was convicted of capital murder in 1998 for the strangulation death of Stacey Stites in Bastrop County two years earlier, has maintained his innocence and is seeking to overturn his conviction.
This appeal hearing was originally granted for Reed after he received a stay of execution in November 2019.
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A federal appeals court rejected death row inmate Rodney Reed s request for DNA testing, ruling Thursday evening that he waited too long to file a lawsuit arguing that prosecutors were violating his civil rights by refusing to test the murder weapon and other crime scene evidence.
The federal lawsuit, filed in August 2019, was one of several last-ditch efforts from defense lawyers as Reed s Nov. 20, 2019 execution date approached.
A different appeal, arguing that the Bastrop man did not commit the 1996 murder that sent him to death row, prompted the state s highest criminal court to halt his execution with five days to spare launching a trial court investigation that is still ongoing.