ASAN – Rodney Reed once again a petition to the US Supreme Court in the pursuit of the additional DNA test for crime scene guides, and an expert in DNA in Texas presented a summary that supports this effort.
Reed was convicted of trial and sentenced him to death on charges of murder and sexual assault on the 19 -year -old Stacy State in Bastrop in 1996. Reid kept his innocence. Although his condemnation was based on the DNA evidence in Stits, Red fought for more DNA testing of evidence that he could absolve.
It is represented by New York City The innocence projectRed fought his condemnation in practice every level available to the state and the federal system. Along the way, new evidence gathered that, as the defense team argues, doubting the evidence for the prosecutors who used to condemn it in trial, such as the time of the death of State and the nature of its relationship with Red before killing it.
Reed remains at the time of execution, with his execution date stopped since 2019 by the Texas Criminal Appeal Court.
In June, Red I presented a petition for Certiorari In the US Supreme Court, he asked the Supreme Court to review a decision of the Court of Appeal in the Fifth Circuit. Reed argues that the fifth circle that supported the constitutionality of the post -condemnation DNA testing law, which was used by prosecutors to prevent Red from requesting more tests.
Reed wants the test on the belt used to strangle the State, and says that the potential pollution of the evidence should not be an obstacle to law or experts to overcome it.
The defense team in Reed said in a statement on Tuesday: “Reed explains that the DNA testing law violates legal procedures because it is arbitrary and irrational.” “The requirements of non -pollution in the law test a test even though the advanced test methods available today can determine whether there is a known profile in a multi -shareholder sample, and although Texas itself regularly provides contaminated evidence to TDPS to conduct a DNA test for use against criminal defendants in the trial.”
DNA expert ascends
On July 10, Chase Bumgartner presented a summary – it is usually called a “court friend” who allows a person not a party to the case to provide information and provide experience.
Bumgartner was a main forensic scientist at the Ministry of Public Safety in Texas. He argues that a Reed request for an additional test must be accepted, and the science of DNA analysis allows multiple shareholders such as belt guides.
“Currently, the courts have denied the right of the legal petition to test the DNA based on a guess,” Bumgartner wrote in a brief. “The DNA test must be done to know, instead of speculating, whether the evidence has been dealt with properly and the pollution is verified.”
To date, the general prosecutors fought against more DNA testing in the Red case. The state submitted a request to extend the deadline to respond to Red’s petition to mid -August, which was granted by the Supreme Court.