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@triggersmarthq (TriggerSmart) is one of the primary hearing-notes accounts for the July 2026 preliminary hearing in State v. Tyler Robinson. Their live summaries — hearing notes, not transcripts — are cited across the site's law-enforcement, legal, and timeline pages as the public's fastest window into testimony.
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- July 8, 2026 — Day 3 notes on Officer Davis (SBI cold-case / case agent with Hull): a ~8:30 PM September 11 message that someone would surrender, arrival at St. George Airport ~11:30 PM, viewing Robinson on a room TV at the Washington County office, and official detention logged September 12 ~4:00 AM. (Post) — see Sept 11 Surrender and Custody.
- Listed the multi-agency roster: SBI primary, plus FBI, ATF, UVU police, and Orem police — a list that tensions with the "Orem PD not involved" public line, per Orem Police Response and FBI Role.
- Reported the mother interviewed with one FBI agent present while Utah officers handled other family interviews — see FBI–Local Coordination.
- July 8–9, 2026 — Summarized ballistics testimony: one spent cartridge case and three additional cartridges, all four with engravings; firearm, ammo, and towel sent to the FBI and later the ATF lab — see Assassination Investigation.
- Day 3 notes that defense argued FBI interviewer McBride used leading questions in a prerecorded limited-immunity Twiggs interview — a defense argument in court, recorded on the 2026 timeline, not a finding of misconduct.
- Cited in audio-acoustic debate context alongside @jonaaronbray in the dual-event mic-theory refinement discussion.
Investigative value
TriggerSmart's notes are the connective tissue between the courtroom and the citizen-investigator ecosystem: custody-clock arguments, agency-jurisdiction questions, and ballistics language disputes all trace back to these summaries. The site's standing caution applies — compare every note against the court transcripts when published.