The Supreme Court granted Reed’s petition for a writ of certiorari — or review of the case — on Monday, according to court records. Reed’s legal team is hoping to challenge an appeals court decision ...

Show more TEXAS -- The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to answer a legal question that could open the door for DNA testing of evidence used to convict Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed.

The appeals court docs show Reed's legal team filed its latest application on Nov. 11, raising four claims: that the state suppressed exculpatory evidence, that the state presented false testimony ...

Court records show Shaver continues presiding over the death penalty case of Rodney Reed. Unless another judge is appointed to replace Shaver he’s still the presiding judge in the Reed case.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the request of death row inmate Rodney Reed to review his claim that prosecutors at his 1998 trial illegally suppressed evidence that could have exonerated him ...

In a decision issued Monday, April 25, the SCOTUS requested the case records from the lower courts so that justices can review and decide whether or not to hear Reed's DNA testing plea.

Court Texas’ highest criminal court emphatically rejects death row inmate Rodney Reed’s claim of innocence Reed, a Black man on death row for more than 25 years, has gained international ...

AUSTIN, Texas — There will be no new trial for convicted killer Rodney Reed. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the death row inmate's request on Wednesday, effectively ending his ...

Judge Doug Shaver has recommended to the Court of Criminal Appeals that it deny death row inmate Rodney Reed's request for a new trial after new evidence surfaced that suggests victim Stacy Stites ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has repeatedly denied Reed’s requests, and in 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court declined an appeal from Rodney to look at the Texas courts’ decision to not ...

BASTROP, Texas (KXAN ) – Death row inmate Rodney Reed, convicted in the 1996 sex assault and murder of Stacey Stites, has a new mid-October hearing set in Bastrop County District Court.

Dozens of lawmakers — both Republicans and Democrats — have asked Gov. Greg Abbott and the parole board to stop Reed's execution. There are also multiple appeals in the courts.