Say it's Rodney Reed

Three years ago, Caitlin Adams, a retired nurse, decided to Bastrop, Texas, a circle, the deterioration of her health.

She was diagnosed suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS, a progressive neuromuscular degenerative diseases can not be cured. Today, Caitlin has gradually become weak - she has to go to a wheelchair, she let her computer to speak for her. When she first moved, but her symptoms are relatively mild, and she was still able to enjoy one of her most favorite thing to do - cycling.

It is these long-term cycling in her new neighbor, there is no specific target, mentality, Rodney Reed's house, she rode past. Door, hung a big banner reading, "innocent death row: Free Rodney Reed." When she got home, Caitlin Rodney and his case-related information on the Internet search.

She hit her learn. Reed Stacey Stites was convicted in the 1996 rape and murder and sent to death row. The main evidence against him is to match the DNA of sperm found on the victim's body.

Although this may seem like case closed, "Caitlin soon know what it is, but. Rodney and 11 other people ready to testify in the trial, Rodney and Stacey have seen each other on and off - Reid said he had with Stacy the night before she was killed.

So who killed Stacey Christi Heights? She has been engaged to marry Jimmy Fennell, a police officer in Bastrop. According to the testimony of a cadet, Fennell said he strangled his girlfriend - with a belt, in order not to leave fingerprints - if he found out she was having an affair. This is the Sidi Ci were killed.

Fennell after the murder of two polygraph tests failed, but he has never deliberately pursue as a criminal suspect. Never searched the he and Stites apartment,. The truck belongs 芬内尔斯蒂茨 promote the evening, she was killed was sent back to the Fennell six days before she was found. The fennel truck the second day of the sale.

While the state government claims that Rodney kidnapped Stacey truck, his fingerprint was found so far - only Stites and Fennell. There are not any debris around the body was found on a roadside site - but it is strange, DNA belonging to officials of friend Jimmy Fennell some beer cans, fingerprint at the crime scene evidence.

Fennell is now in prison for a serious kidnapping and sexual assault of women admitted in 2009 after 10 years in prison in the implementation of the tasks.

Reed's lawyer in court Rodney has been fighting for a new trial, where you can hear this evidence. The judge denied Reed's direct appeal was the Reva companies Townslee Corbett, daughter death row in the first trial judge and Reed. It is difficult to see why this is not to be regarded as a conflict of interest.

Reed federal habeas corpus petition be rejected in June last year. In the process, his lawyers prepare an appeal to the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Despite these denials compelling new evidence, including the coroner Robert Bayar, testified for the prosecution in the trial, he said he does not believe Stacey was raped statement. He said he agreed with the conclusions of other forensic experts matched Reed's sperm may be a day or more old, instead of "recently", because he said in the trial.

As Reed Innocence Project in New York City, one of the lawyers, Bryce Benjet said:

    Bayar Dr.'s the crux of the argument is that countries have distorted his views in the trial falsely accuse Rodney. The Bayar Dr.'s views do not agree with the state's theory, Rodney raped and killed one of the forensic experts of Stacy. In more than 10 years of litigation, the state has never put forward an expert witness contradictions innocence Rodney scientific advice.

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ADAMS CAITLIN not know when she moves in Bastrop, she will soon be her energy is focused on the release a man trapped on death row. However, this is exactly what she was doing.

See the sign, Reed's house in Texas and learn more about the case, one day, Caitlin stop out in front of the home with his family. She met Rodney's mother, Sandra Reed, and forged a bond. Caitlin about the abolitionist movement, and to participate in its annual meeting. Rodney, and six months after she began to write her up with Sandra she first went to visit him.

Caitlin trips, although this deterioration of her health condition has become more difficult. She now travel to use a wheelchair - her behind her bike riding days. She also has a reduced use of her speech. However, this did not stop her visit Rodney - for him to speak out.

Caitlin has harnessed all the latest technology, "speech" for her, her iPad, her fight to get a license to jail, be able to communicate Rodney on the application. Caitlin's story of the author of the blog "from death row: Justice Rodney Reed," published in the movement, and to the Web site of the death penalty. Her access to Reed and her contemplation of the criminal justice system and the Reed case, the blog is a heartfelt account.

April 3 standard Rodney Reed - 15 people, has spent 16 years in prison on death row.

When he went to death row, Rodney - 29 years old, is the father of three children, Aaron, Christopher and Anthony. Reed writes: on death row, the hardest thing is to know that his children growing up without him, they are now all young people, I am now a proud grandfather of four beautiful grandbabies: Jaymeson, Marlei, Jeremiah and Avery. this day I pray that I can hold in my arms. "

Rodney described as "tenacious, enthusiastic Caitlin is an absolutely amazing Caitlin once the lights dim light - in my life on death row in Texas - and now has become a the bright full swing, it seems only beautiful every day, it seems her shine in the sun. "

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Recently, I asked some of the problems of Caitlin, Rodney Reed and why she want to participate in the struggle, even for the deterioration of her health:

Why do you believe in his innocence Rodney Reed?

Read media reports, court documents and evidence files, police files, the autopsy report, see the the documentary State v. Reed, and all I could get my dirty little hands. I've spoken to his chief lawyer Bryce Benjet, Rodney family, friends, and who know Rodney female citizen in Dici to see the other person. I have no other conclusion.

The absence of any evidence of the murder implicated Rodney. No. Countries do not provide any motive, just a random crime of passion, which is a bit of a contradiction, to put it mildly. A person on foot to overtake a truck the kidnapped driver without leaving a fingerprint or any physical evidence in trucks or any other place - this is the theory of the state, because it is in the trial.

When the lack of fingerprint evidence in the trial, the prosecution T-shirt, claiming Rodney use it to wipe his only his fingerprints from the truck. Have a problem in my book, but makes it more problematic, T-shirt, was found at the scene, Ms. Stites body, rather than in the high school parking the truck.

In this case, each timeline in their theory of the crime by the procuratorial organs every guess is based on the version of Jimmy Fennell event: citizen in Dici female last seen alive when she left work, she was driving the truck.

When, statistically, we know that such crimes committed in the vast majority of cases the victims know, as a husband, boyfriend or ex, do not search the apartment is tantamount to "assist and abetting. "simply assume that the murderer is a separate action, no investigation, thus clear any Fennell Mr. negligence, is ridiculous.

The entire case is filled with illogical. When I first started looking into Rodney's case, I was looking for something as much as possible for the jurors. From the outset, there are so many that did not make sense to me. All methods can and should write a book in Rodney's case, the system failed so miserably.

On the death penalty and the criminal justice system, before you do not know what you have learned?

It is capricious, it is racist, it is reserved for the poor, which is completely wrong. This premeditated murder submit. In the criminal justice system, it is flawed, broken system works, if you have money, power or privilege. If everything is normal, you do not have any of those things, you said very lucky! A favorite quote by James Baldwin think [I] sent the poor people in the justice legal trouble, we can assume that the intervention of heaven. "

Before I started this stay, I know all these things. Now, I know the way they shook my core, I know what I have to do, as long as I'm breathing!

You how to pour so much, you have to leave the battle?

Well, this is a problem, assuming that every word I write, every time I let each, not to repay all of my energy, my investment. I will put forward this hypothesis to rest. I got more than I gave. I Rodney and I on behalf of my heart, in his advocacy friendship to my active thinking, my fingers busy, my soul grateful beyond words. I can not get more blessings.

Watching inspirational screenwriter Scott Lu wrote a movie, without having to type or speak

Is very difficult to write a movie. Imagine, no ability to speak or write it from a wheelchair. This is the incredible truth Scott Lu for his new movie, sexy evil genius. In 2004, Lu was diagnosed suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, the writer mute pentaplegic has left. (He can not move his limbs, neck or head), he was forced to use the ventilator breathing and communication with the help of an assistant, as well as infrared dot on his forehead.

Use this arduous process, communication, Lu wrote movie sexy evil genius, star Katee Sackoff, Seth Green, Michelle Trachtenberg, William Baldwin and Harold Perrineau. Director Shawn Piller, April 9 DVD disc contains the documentary jujitsu reality, which details the story of Lew. The exclusive debut documentary / movie clips are proud. Out below.

This is not self-evident reality clip from jujitsu.

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I asked the director Sean Pile Lu movie is what it looks like, and here his elegant response:

    Scott is an inspiration, and a wonderful collaborator. He made a lot of my writer friends note how fast the speed he turned around a disgrace. In the movie, any action or explosion, the number of each row. Scott is not only open every joke spacing and visual ideas, he opened the movie, five people sitting around a table, but he stuck to his guns and stood up for me, director, firmly as any writer, I've had the pleasure of working. I believe that I like this movie is not a small task. I tirelessly to goose movies, and pop-up in the like his screenplay pop-up page on the screen.

    Work with Scott, the script is not only a professional welcome, but a very personal experience for me, because it was me and my father and writing partner fighting throat cancer, Michael Piller, in the past three years his life. I mainly by e-mail to communicate with him, because he lost his voice, like Scott, but not a great story of his mind near the end (for three performances). So this for me is very familiar with the conversation. Sometimes treatment, sometimes frustrating, sometimes heartbreaking, but always a learning experience.

    I will write 10 notes. Scott respondents pointed out that he did not agree (just through the implementation of these notes in the future because it will be a waste of his valuable time, rather than agree with me), and write back, cut and paste my notes, and his reaction, he do not agree or have an idea I think. Sometimes he would praise me as "a brilliant idea" is so generous to accept it. At other times, we will taste Duke silly lines or debate or tone or character. But it is always in the service of the story and characters, like my father, and I cherish every second, and the script is always better results.

Lew's story is incredible, it definitely adds a crazy girlfriend who invited her ex-boyfriend of a column at the same time, his movie is a whole other layer.