Rodney Reedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Rodney Reed (born December 22, 1967) is a Texas Death Row inmate. Rodney Reed, an African-American man from Bastrop County, Texas, who is currently on death row for the 1996 rape and murder of Stacey Stites, 19, a white woman. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled on December 17, 2008 that Reed failed to prove that prosecutors suppressed evidence in capital murder trial 10 years ago. The ruling affirms the decision from Bastrop County Judge Reva Towslee Corbett, the daughter of the judge who presided over Reed’s original trial and conviction. Corbett concluded that there was not credible evidence that the state had done anything wrong. In October 2005, the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals, in what had been called “a rare move,” ordered the case back to the trial court to determine whether the prosecutor's conduct violated Reed’s constitutional rights.