Rodney Reed hearing: Victim’s fiance invokes Fifth Amendment, won’t testify

BASTROP, Texas (KXAN) — Jimmy Fennell, the former fiance of murder victim Stacey Stites, has declined to take the stand at Rodney Reed’s hearing Tuesday. In an affidavit, Fennell said he would invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to any questions about the case.
Reed was convicted and sentenced to death by a Bastrop County jury in 1997 for Stites’ murder. The State Court of Criminal Appeals remanded Reed’s case back to Bastrop County for a four-day hearing to discuss a