Judge rejects Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed's bid for new trial. Reed's case for a new trial had been championed by celebrities, politicians and others in the weeks leading up to his planned execution in November 2019.
Reed was found guilty by an all-white jury in the 1996 rape and murder of Stites, a grocery store worker in the central Texas town of Bastrop, east of Austin.
Semen was found inside Stites, and police matched the DNA to that of Reed, who was arrested a year later. Reed's sperm had previously been collected as part of an unrelated sexual assault investigation. Reed's lawyers, in calling for a new trial, pointed to new witnesses who had come forward and forensic evidence that had been re-evaluated. That includes people who had cast doubt on Reed's conviction and, in some cases, implicated Fennell, the victim's fiancé.
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