98 Court PDFs Collected by a Citizen Researcher
What This Image Shows
A screenshot of a computer file directory titled Tyler Robinson Court Documents, showing a grid of 98 PDF icons filed chronologically by date-prefixed filenames. A faint semi-transparent watermark reading BLAKE BENNETT lies across the background.
The filenames are the content. They begin 9_16_25 with the acknowledgement, bail order, Information, probable cause affidavit, protective order and public-safety attachment, then run forward: the 9_17_25 initial appearance, a 9_22_25 protective order on publicity, 9_24_25 transport and standing decorum orders, a run of 9_28_25 supplemental notices, 9_30_25 and 10_6_25 discovery requests, a 10_8_25 motion to preserve evidence, 10_13_25 and 10_14_25 stipulated motions and interim orders, and 10_20_25 motions and orders on classifying material as private.
What this image documents is the state of public access. The docket in a capital case arising from a political assassination is not published as a searchable public archive; it is a grid of PDFs one person downloaded, renamed and kept. Everything else in this cluster came out of a folder like this. That dependence on volunteer archiving is one of the specific gaps the reform section proposes to close. See Discovery Rights Reform, Digital Evidence Preservation, and Court and Trial.
Related Areas
- Cluster: Court and Legal Proceedings
- Section: Court & Trial
- Section: Legal
- All photo evidence: Photos