Whipped Cream Difficulties

A mistrial was declared yesterday in the murder case against Charles Reedy.

Mr. Reedy was accused of stabbing his roommate to death. However…

…Travis County prosecutors discovered several hundred new photos that Austin police detectives had taken as evidence. Their discovery prompted state District Judge Brad Urrutia to order a mistrial after Reedy’s lawyers said the new batch of photos might have impaired the case they had planned to present to the jury.

I believe that is what lawyers call a “Brady violation”, also known as “bad move, space cadet”. But that’s not why this story is interesting.

You see, Mr. Reedy has been convicted of murder before:

In 2001, a jury found him guilty of killing John Teller in a wooded area near St. Edward’s University and Interstate 35. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
But in 2006, the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin overturned the conviction. Chief Justice W. Kenneth Law wrote an opinion saying, “The jury’s verdict is unsupported by proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Kind of makes you go “Hmmmmmmmm”, doesn’t it?

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