The 6–3 opinion clocks in at only six pages, but it does *a lot* in that space.
Reed, who is Black, seeks to overturn a 1998 conviction for the 1996 rape and murder of 19-year-old Stacey Stites, who was white. Stites had been strangled with a belt outside of Bastrop, Texas. Investigators initially suspected Stites’ husband, police officer Jimmy Fennell. Their focus shifted to Reed, however, when they matched his DNA to three spermatozoa found in Stites’ vaginal cavity. Even though Reed and Stites were having an affair, Reed initially denied knowing her.
. Two people who did time with Fennell testified that, while incarcerated, he indicated that he strangled Stites with his belt.So the first way to understand the Supreme Court’s decision is as a turning point in Reed’s capital litigation. The above-recited facts trickled into public view over time, and they form a harrowing tale of injustice. The group taking up Reed’s cause includes
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