Supreme Court lets Texas Death Row inmate Rodney Reed pursue DNA lawsuit texasnews
The justices, in a 6-3 decision, sent Reed's case back to a lower court for his constitutional challenge to the state's law on DNA testing.
The issue before the high court was whether Reed, sentenced to death nearly 25 years ago, waited too long to file his lawsuit claiming that untested crime-scene evidence would exonerate him. Texas courts and the federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled that he missed the deadline.Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented.
Reed was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Prosecutors said Reed raped and strangled Stites as she made her way to work at a supermarket in Bastrop, a rural community about 30 miles southeast of Austin. Reed has long maintained that Stites' fiance, former police officer Jimmy Fennell, was the real killer. Reed said Fennell was angry because Stites, who was white, was having an affair with Reed, who is Black. Fennell, who served time for sexual assault and was released from prison in 2018, has denied killing Stites.
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