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.
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.
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