Rodney Reed Supports Calling For A New Trial

AUSTIN Supporters of death row inmate Rodney Reed are calling for a new trial. Reed was convicted of the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites from Bastrop.

[bastropgal]

They really need to give this man a fair trial, this is all bs.

[I am African American]

Rodney is getting what he deserves. Kid rapist! The sooner he dies the better. You people need to stop making everything a race thing. You are the reason there are racists! SEE YOU IN HELL KILLER!!!

[Yushi Samagura]

bastropgal wrote:

They really need to give this man a fair trial, this is all bs.

I am agree. Give fair trial then execute. Rodney innocent as OJ.

[livefortoday]

The 2 men who did this was cops, police men, but now they are dead they both commited suicide.

[livefortoday]

Caucasian, white??????????

[Yushi Samagura]

livefortoday wrote:

Caucasian, white??????????

Mexican, dumbass??????????

[Harlan Pritchett]

I don't see the problem here folks. So even if he did have this "secret sexual affair" with the engaged white girl that no one but his family apparently knew of. That alone is reason enough to execute the a**hole. Bye Rodney.

[Safir Sankofa]

Harlan Pritchett wrote:

I don't see the problem here folks. So even if he did have this "secret sexual affair" with the engaged white girl that no one but his family apparently knew of. That alone is reason enough to execute the a**hole. Bye Rodney.

So you don't think a white girl would be seeing a black man is that it? Well in my experience white women love a black, uneducated, unhygienic, black man with no future and no inclination to ever amount to anything that requires work or dedication. They all can't get enough of being called bitches and ho's and if they get pregnant they love it when the brotha leaves them. They want a real black man not some Cosby Uncle Tom who goes to school and works for a livin. Hell yeah, they wants the real deal you know what I'm sayin?

[livefortoday]

New information about
Georgetown officer be connected to murder Wednesday's indictment of a Georgetown policeman on rape and kidnapping charges impact a decades-old capital murder case? Sgt. Jimmy Fennell, Jr. Is charged with sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint last October.

Some say the cop's arrest could help set another man free from death row.

It was 1996 when 19-year-old Stacey Stites was found strangled on the side of a road in Bastrop.

A jury convicted Rodney Reed of murder and sentenced him to death. Supporters have long insisted police have the wrong man behind bars.

The appeal seeking a new trial suggests Stites' live-in boyfriend, Jimmy Fennell -- then a Giddings police officer -- was to blame.

The motive? The defense claims Fennell was jealous when he found out Stites was having an affair -- with Reed, whose DNA was found on the body.

"It's going to have a big impact on him," says Rodney Reed's father, Walter Reed. "And on the justice system."

He hopes his son is released soon. And says he isn't surprised by Fennell's arrest.

"It's what I had been expecting -- sooner or later," the father told CBS 42's Rebecca Taylor.

The arrest has many in Reed's camp optimistic for a new trial.

"As everyone familiar with the case knows, Rodney's defense theory has been Jimmy Fennell and not Rodney Reed was involved in the Stacey Stites murder," said death penalty activist Bryan McCann.

"I don't feel that they looked into (Fennell) at all," Walter Reed said.

No one at the Bastrop County District Attorney's office would comment on the case Wednesday.

"We see it as an opportunity to raise discussion in Rodney's case," McCann said. "We're much more interested in proving Rodney's innocence than necessarily proving Jimmy Fennell's guilt about anything."

The appeal goes before the court of criminal appeals on Jan. 16.

The attorney general's office is prosecuting the appeals case. They, too, declined a request for an on camera interview.

[unknown]

I am the girl that fennell rape and I am the reason he is now in bars and off the streets i think that reed needs a new trial

[Fredrick Leicht]

Cross your fingers guys, and hopefully at least one wrong will be set right.

[Meir Kahane was right]

A man who has been accused by numerous women of rape and whose explanation for the DNA evidence is contradicted by the ME(the semen was deposited directly before the murder, not the day before as he claims) cries racism and people believe him? How gullible can you be?