WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ultimate Courtroom on Monday agreed to listen to an enchantment from Texas dying row inmate Rodney Reed, who claims untested crime-scene proof will assist transparent him.
Reed was once sentenced to dying for the 1996 killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. Prosecutors say Reed raped and strangled Stites as she made her strategy to paintings at a grocery store in Bastrop, a rural group about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southeast of Austin.
Reed has lengthy maintained that her fiance, former police officer Jimmy Fennell, was once the true killer. Reed says Fennell was once indignant as a result of Stites, who was once white, was once having an affair with Reed, who’s Black. Fennell, who served time for sexual attack and was once launched from jail in 2018, has denied killing Stites.
The justices will absorb the case within the fall. The problem is whether or not Reed waited too lengthy to invite for DNA checking out of things recovered from and close to Stiles’ frame, clothes and pieces present in or close to Fennell’s truck.
The fifth U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals dominated in opposition to Reed.
His supporters have integrated Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian and Oprah Winfrey, in addition to lawmakers from each events.
