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what's in this box Steve there are a number of items that we had intended to use during the trial we thought it was
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important that you all see exactly what we saw and then can also hopefully remember something what are you holding
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in your hand there are two separate receipts here one is a Walmart receipt where specifically
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the things that were important to us was a poly sheet and a drop cloth certainly
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something that could be used to have have hidden or rolled up the body to kept it from some sort of public view
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what's the drop cloth it's something that a painters would use that put to put on the floor you to keep it things
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from when you're painting from getting on your floor or on furniture that sort of things and what's the big one here
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this is a receipt from Bradley Reynolds he rented roughly at the same time a pressure washer and we're your
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detectives ever able to find a job he was contracted to do in which he used a power washer say to take paid off of
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someone's house nothing specific no nothing specifically there was never an explanation for that now certainly again
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viewed individually without any of the other evidence this is all innocuous there's nothing inherently guilt-ridden
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in any of this it's only when you view it in the context of all the other evidence that this comes together as
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something my name is Lee Davis I'm a defense attorney and I represent Donnie Brantley so where did these things come
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from these receipts were in his business records with the house doctors in the office files in his office do you really
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think somebody who went to great lengths to make sure that there was no murder no
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crime scene no DNA and no fiber would leave a receipt for a pop-tart a banana and a tarp for investigators to
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find a year later let me give you an example we went and subpoenaed the records for
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that tarp it is a clear 2 mil piece of plastic that you can see your hand clearly through next to that is a
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thicker tarp that is black that you cannot see through personally if I was going to commit first-degree murder I
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wouldn't get the banana or the pop-tart but I get the black tarp in this case they bought the thin clear tarp so as I
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suggested to the prosecutors and the investigator maybe he was using it for painting like he did that week that he
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used the tape for on the floor so he didn't get somebody's floor dirty work miss build with paint the defense would
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say well he had a home repair business and he used drop cloths and these items in that and and again in the context of
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every day yes certainly if you view it individually I there's no way in the world to disagree with that fact but
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jurors and juries and and prosecutors and law enforcement don't view things in isolation we're at circumstantial you
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take all of these sorts of things and build a frame around a picture that then you fill in with other pieces of
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evidence so in the context of this case absolutely we thought these were important