Rodney Reed heads to Bastrop for pivotal hearing

BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) – Death row inmate Rodney Reed, who has maintained his innocence in the killing of Stacey Stites, is heading back to Bastrop District Court for a hearing this week that could alter the trajectory of his decades-long legal battle.
Reed’s defense team says it will show new evidence that points to Jimmy Fennell, 44, Stites’ fiancé at the time of her death, as the real killer.
In this writ of habeas corpus hearing, Reed’s defense team says it will