Bastrop County DA Bryan Goertz and the Texas Attorney General’s office just filed their latest response to #RodneyReed’s innocence claims yesterday. They have no new evidence. They do not try to refute the scientific evidence that Rodney is innocent — because they can’t.
Goertz and the AG’s office took the position that it’s “too late” for #RodneyReed to prove his innocence. Think about that for a minute. They think that it’s acceptable to leave a question of innocence unresolved in a death penalty case due to an arbitrary self-created deadline.
Goertz and the AG’s office also admitted that they would have a difficult time presenting a case against #RodneyReed if a new trial is granted. Read between the lines there. Are they afraid that they will lose the case at retrial? Is that why they won’t test DNA evidence?
Goertz and the AG’s office raised some technical legal arguments. They say that any rules of criminal law decided after #RodneyReed’s trial shouldn’t apply now. In other words, they say Rodney should get less justice because of an accidental factor like the original trial date.
#RodneyReed’s lawyers will surely respond soon to the state’s latest rehashing of the same old flawed arguments and inaccurate information.
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