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you were talking about her her engagement ring and I was like oh he's so excited to get married and she said she really wasn't so excited to get married and quickly followed that one statement she was actually sleeping with the black guy named Rodney [Music] okay start with your name and your employment with h-e-b and the proof of a pre-existing consensual sexual relationship between Rodney Reed and Stacey Stites would be a key exonerating piece of evidence in his case for proving the relationship would provide a reasonable explanation to why a small amount of Reed sperm was found on the victim in fact in a 2012 denial of Rodney Reeves appeal Texas Court of Criminal Appeals judge Andrew W Austin wrote that Reed's claim of a consensual relationship is effectively the beginning and end of his assertion of innocence Austin further stated that all witnesses to this relationship had been friends and associates of Rodney Reed and not of Stacey Stites and therefore were unreliable finally Austin wrote that because Reed's claim that he had an affair with Stacey Stites does not have credible evidentiary support his claims of actual innocence is doomed but what if such a witness existed [Music] according to Rodney Reed's first lawyer Jimmy Brown there were multiple co-workers at Stacy's grocery store job who knew and witnessed a relationship between she and Rodney read on everything that Rodney told me that happened I was able to verify in a 2015 affidavit Jimmy Brown states when he returned to the store a week later those same witnesses were unwilling to speak with him under a presumed threat from the Bastrop Police witness intimidation and threat were two of the main reasons Rodney Reed's lawyers had difficulty establishing the relationship during the original trial however since then 20 different people have come forward being their personal knowledge that the relationship indeed existed including Alicia Slater who moved to California shortly after the murder and did not realize until recently how important her information was to the case and I just didn't realize that when I had to save meant so much in this case because if that's what it came down to yeah they were having an affair she told me I bought more people knew about it as well so you know it's a hundred percent remember everything about that conversation and she she was scared and away and then she was also super happy because she's sleeping Rodney you know and I didn't know who Robbie was you know jenny was so you know I have a zero affiliation to either one of them I'm not a family member I don't all I knew is Stacey from work and all I know is what she told me and that's all I can you know I work with that fact that a 19 year old girl would not want to volunteer information that could implicate a local police officer in a murder is highly understandable and yet it underscores the major issue of witness in the case against in addition to Alicia Slater fellow h-e-b grocery store worker Leroy Jabara has stated he actually saw Reid visiting Stites at the store and Stacey Stites cousin buddy Horton has sworn he saw the two together at a local dairy queen a few months before her murder [Music] that's definitely something I'd be willing to do to help so and you'll also be willing to take a polygraph test and yet instead of pursuing this vital piece of evidence and seeking the truth the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals have completely ignored Alecia Slater's sworn affidavit state prosecutors are now asking to execute convicted murderer Rodney Reed with medical experts now agreeing Stacey Stites was not sexually assaulted there was no evidence as to no evidence in the autopsy of the findings and photographs that she had been sexually assaulted and multiple eyewitnesses verifying a pre-existing relationship between Stacey Stites and Rodney Reed there remains absolutely no physical evidence linking Reed to the crime that he is now set to die for alternatively there is an overwhelming abundance of evidence implicating Stacey Stites police officer boyfriend Jimmy Finnell as well as clear indications of a cover-up by fellow police officers investigators and prosecutors to keep that truth from ever being known the existence of a cover-up and those involved in it could be a key contributing factor as to why the state has refused to acknowledge the truth in this case despite convincing and credible evidence of Reid's innocence which leaves the question how broken is our justice system that it would move forward and knowingly execute an innocent man and what could be done now to stop them Jimmy fennel junior is accused of sexually assaulting a woman he detained he was kept told me shut up he asked me to dance for him since then there have been a lot of things that I've learned in that 20 years I've heard about that have made me wonder if Rodney was framed I remember after driving by I thought man that guy could have killed say just by way he's acting [Music]