“This opportunity will allow for proper consideration of the powerful and mounting new evidence of Mr. Reed’s innocence,” his attorney said.
In a statement shared with BuzzFeed News, Bryce Benjet, Reed’s attorney with the Innocence Project, said they are"extremely relieved" by the court's decision.
“This opportunity will allow for proper consideration of the powerful and mounting new evidence of Mr. Reed’s innocence,” he added.Brittani Smith at a protest against the execution of Rodney Reed on Nov. 13 in Bastrop, Texas. Reed, who is black, was charged in 1996 with the murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites, whom he has maintained he was having a consensual affair with. He was convicted and sentenced to death by an all-white jury. Reed's lawyers allege that there are new witnesses to back up his claims.In the past, prosecutors have argued that Reed has requested DNA testing on items “whose relevance to the crime is unknown.
The district attorney of Bastrop County, Bryan Goertz, was unavailable for comment and the assistant district attorney, Matthew Ottoway, declined to comment. Jimmy Fennell’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. At the time of her murder, Stites was engaged to Jimmy Fennell, a former police officer. Fennell spent 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping a woman in his custody in 2008.stating that Fennell said,"I had to kill my nigger-loving fiancé." Snow was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang.by the Innocence Project, a former police officer heard Fennell say “You got what you deserved” near Stites’ coffin.
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