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CCA Rejects New Trial for Rodney Reed

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pThe majority opinion, written by Judge Michael Keasler is a href=http://www.cca.courts.state.tx.us/opinions/pdfOpinionInfo2.asp?OpinionID=17748here/a./ppquot;a href=http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/12/18/1218reed.htmlMan on death row will not get new trial, state says/a,quot; is today#39;s Austin American-Statesman report by Isadora Vail and Steven Kreytak./pp style=margin-left: 40px;The state#39;s highest criminal court on Wednesday denied the most recent bid for a new trial by death row inmate Rodney Reed, convicted a decade ago in the brutal Bastrop County strangling and sexual assault of 19-year-old Stacey Stites. /p p style=margin-left: 40px;The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, in the most robust review to date of the controversial case, issued a 100-page opinion that evaluates in painstaking detail much of the evidence presented at Reed#39;s 1998 trial and raised by his lawyers in the years since the guilty verdict...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 18, 2008 (boomark / email).