“Absolutely zero evidence exists that Rodney had anything at all to do with this crime. They cancelled their wedding. “Lawyers for Mr. Reed are doing what any good lawyers would do in this desperate eleventh hour, they’re trying this case in the court of public opinion because they have failed to get any judge, anywhere to listen to these fanciful claims,” Phillips said. “[Snow is] trying his best to lighten his load, I’m sure, at Jimmy’s expense. A Hays County Jail inmate has come forward claiming Jimmy Fennell confessed to killing his then-fiance Stacey Stites in 1996. Reed is black, and his supporters argue that rage over an interracial relationship could have sparked the homicide. …Frau verurteilt. “The State’s theory at trial was that Reed’s DNA profile found in the semen deposited in Stites’s vagina and rectum and in the saliva on her breast clearly indicated that Reed had sex with Stites,” an appellate court decision in the case says.
He was engaged to be married to her and the individual who raped and murdered her is properly on death row,” Phillips said. Reed had been accused in other rape cases before his trial for Stites’s death but was not convicted; Fennell was convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman while on duty as a police officer in 2007, a crime for which he spent a decade behind bars, Reed’s clemency petition states.Fennell was initially looked at by law enforcement. Stites’ mother also insisted that Fennell had insisted on driving Stacey to work on the morning of the murder because he wanted his truck, but he denied this occurred, according to Reed’s petition.Soon after Fennell’s truck was located but before Stacey’s body was found, Fennell “withdrew all the money in his bank account,” the petition states.The state’s argument is that “Reed somehow intercepted Ms. Stites while she was en route to work, gained entry to the truck, sexually assaulted and strangled her (within a two hour window between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.) without leaving fingerprints, hair or other evidence in the truck, and then transported her body to the remote location where it was discovered,” says the petition.Additional review by forensic pathologists “places the time of Ms. Stites’ murder before midnight, when Fennell testified the couple was home alone together,” according to the petition, which also states that expert testimony that the sperm in Stites body was consistent with sexual assault were invalid.Prosecutorial experts had contended that sperm can’t remain intact in a woman’s body for more than 24-26 hours, which gave no innocent explanation for the DNA because “Fennell’s testimony accounted for Ms. Stites over the prior 24 hours.”In fact, according to the petition, sperm can remain intact for at least 72 hours. “Rodney Reed was convicted by a jury of twelve. Rodney Reed Files for Clemency Amidst New ... A Hays County Jail inmate has come forward claiming Jimmy Fennell confessed to killing his then-fiance Stacey Stites in 1996.
Reed’s fate was in the hands of Texas Gov. He was charged with capital murder, citing DNA evidence matching Reed’s DNA to a small amount of sperm found inside the body. He would stand outside her house at night, screaming and calling her obscenities. He asked if Aida was seeing someone, and it was revealed she had previously shown up at work with bruises on her face and “claimed it was a result of being hit in the face by a phone when Jimmy became upset and threw a phone at her.”Fennell was later sentenced to a 10-year prison term for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman while he was on duty as a police officer in 2007. Reed has always maintained his innocence. AUSTIN (KXAN) — A SWAT situation at a home in south Austin has now been going on for about a day, with no end in sight. By Innocence Staff . Thank you for visiting us. Die junge Frau war mit dem Polizeibeamten Jimmy Fennell verlobt, auf den auch der erste Verdacht fiel. She gave the baby up for adoption and completed high school. “Getting a positive result, Blakley collected DNA samples from Stites’s vagina and breasts. He wrote that he became a “sort-of” leader of the gang.In about 2010, a white man named Jimmy Fennell approached him wanting the protection of the Aryan Brotherhood from “the blacks and Mexicans at the prison,” according to Snow.Snow’s affidavit said that Jimmy “seemed out of his element” so he cut a deal with Jimmy to pay the Aryan Brotherwhood out of his commissary in return for protecting him from violence.His affidavit alleges that they weren’t really friends but occasionally made conversation and one time they were talking in the rec yard when he says that Fennell was talking about his ex-fiance with “a lot of hatred and resentment.” He said she had “been sleeping around with a black man behind his back.”Toward the end, according to Snow, Fennell said, “I had to kill my (n word)-loving fiancé.”He assumed Jimmy thought the confession would “earn him credibility with the Aryand Brotherhood.” But once the Aryan Brotherhood learned Fennell was a cop and rapist, they decided not to protect him anymore and Fennell accused the Aryan Brotherhood of extorting him, so he was moved to another unit.He claims he later saw Fennell’s picture in the newspaper and learned about the Reed case. This is happening at a home on Garbacz Drive near Menchaca Road. “I was so disturbed by his behavior that it caused me to question whether he was involved in Stacey’s death,” Fletcher’s affidavit states. She started dating Fennell when she was in high school and he was 22 years old and working as a jailer. Die Ermittlungen in dem Mordfall… Sonntag 20.10.2019 11:16 - Indymedia (Texas) Free Rodney Reed! I decided that I had to come forward and tell someone what I knew.” he said in the affidavit.