Tyler Robinson's motion to stay the preliminary hearing is DENIED. We appear to be all systems go for July 6, barring some extraordinary intervention by the Utah Supreme Court.
We're back in court in Tyler Robinson's case tomorrow at 8 AM PST for an evidentiary hearing on whether the prosecutors are in contempt of the gag order and whether hearsay should be admitted at the preliminary hearing. Come watch it with me and catch up on all the happenings!
https://t.co/hZTTyuWm51
⚖ Commonwealth v. Mickey Stines
📅 Friday June 5th
🕙 9:45AM EST/6:45AM PST
🟠 Court Hearing
Motions -
🔸️Change of Venue
🔸️2nd Psych eval. of Stines
🔸️Bond
Come watch the hearing LIVE with Andrea Burkhart and discuss the case with us.
https://t.co/glZMY5IChM
The UVU surveillance videos, showing Tyler traveling to and from the scene with the murder weapon, will be the most powerful evidence at the July preliminary hearing, along with TPUSA's videos.
Unlike ballistics, toolmarks, and digital forensics that experts will dispute endlessly, clear video of Tyler in the act will be a direct, hard-to-spin, powerful antidote to the bogus "investigations" and non-professional theories that have entranced many people.
Unfortunately, the public will probably not see these videos in July. The pool camera has never panned to the courtroom monitors during any previous hearings, so at the preliminary hearing we’ll likely only see the judge, witnesses, and the backs of people’s heads while the videos play in the courtroom.
Given that the judge has been doing a quick reminder/shame session with the camera guy ("Did you read the decorum order? Will you comply?") at the beginning of every hearing, it's unlikely that the feed will show what's on the courtroom monitors in July.
Tomorrow morning, we find out if the public is going to be kept out of Tyler Robinson's preliminary hearing and the exhibits sealed. We'll also find out how seriously the judge intends to police his gag order. Watch the ruling live with me at 8:45 AM PST!
https://t.co/5avi82FMM6
⚖ State v. Tyler Robinson
🕚 10:45AM EST/7:45AM PST
🔷️ MOTION HEARING - Did the State violate the Gag Order?
🎙 Join us today for a LIVE watch & legal analysis with Andrea Burkhart @aburkhartlaw
https://t.co/ZgSRM88HS3
#CharlieKirkMurder#TylerRobinson
Ruling on Luigi's motion to suppress is out! Key rulings:
*New York law applies
*McD's search not valid incident to arrest
*Inventory search at jail ok
*PA warrant doesn't cure defects in McDonalds search
It's a windy day here and I'm stuck inside. Want to get to know Tyler Robinson's lawyer Michael Burt better? Join me live at noon PST to talk about some of his background and watch the closing argument he gave for Lyle Menendez in the first trial - when the jury hung.
https://t.co/k7pqh2q7xz
⚖ State v. Tyler Robinson
🔴 Ruling on Defense Motions to Continue the Preliminary Hearing & Ban Cameras
🎙 Watch LIVE with Andrea Burkhart @aburkhartlaw today at 1:45pm PST/4:45 EST
https://t.co/yvnc6z1YeR
#CharlieKirkMurder#TylerRobinson
I'll be livestreaming tomorrow's hearing on Tyler Robinson's motion to remove the cameras from court. In this video I previewed the defense motion, the case law they're relying on, and some of their reasons to prepare you for what's coming tomorrow.
https://t.co/O2NaJOOY2j
I made a second video on the testing the State wants to do on the bullet evidence. Coincidentally, I found this article last night announcing a new analytical technique that uses both conventional bullet lead and lead isotope ratio analyses, which I talk about in the video.
https://t.co/T6kScj7yHL
Article: https://t.co/d0LYyjt2hG
The ATF Report in Tyler Robinson's case is now available. It's clearly a summary report that doesn't provide great detail but it does have new information:
1 bullet jacket fragment and 4 lead fragments were recovered during Charlie's autopsy,
The jacket is identified as coming from a .30 caliber class bullet.
The jacket fragment shared class characteristics with Tyler Robinson's Mauser 98 rifle, so the rifle couldn't be excluded as having fired the bullet. But the fragment lacks individual characteristics permitting identification of one rifle to the exclusion of all others in the class.
The engravings on the cartridge casings are consistent with a rotary tool like a Dremel.
According to the motion, the State now wants to conduct Virtual Comparison Microscopy (VCM) on the jacket casing, a new technology in which the item is 3D scanned and virtually compared to a test fire. This might require the analyst to "unfold" deformed portions of the jacket, which could leave marks from the tool used to unfold the material. It could also potentially affect the structural integrity of the jacket fragment; an FBI analyst who received the fragment from the ATF noted that part of the jacket fragment has become detached in the packaging.
The State also wants to do "metallurgical" testing of a lead fragment, the precise nature of which is unspecified.
The defense filed the January 9th motion after they requested to be able to photograph the jacket casing in its current state and to attend or photograph any future testing, and its requests were denied. The motion is requesting that testing not be allowed to proceed without these conditions in place to protect the defense's ability to evaluate the testing.
Document available here: https://t.co/iVUhbTiOJw
At 11 am PST today I'll be going live to recap the final day of trial in Ioan Gruffudd's divorce from hell from Alice Evans. More lies are revealed, more strategic decisions are jaw-dropping, and we leave the evidence phase without a clear picture of why this trial happened at all.
https://t.co/hBsp4JVfFs