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07/08/2026 — Preliminary Hearing Day 3

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FieldReported value
Date07/08/2026 (Wednesday)
CategoryPreliminary hearing — Day 3
Full transcriptPreliminary Hearing — Day 3

What happened​

Afternoon start (1 p.m. per pool reporters). State calls Brian Davis (SBI):

  • Robinson's 09/11/2025 surrender at Washington County Sheriff's Office with parents and family friend Mike Mitchell (~9 p.m. arrival as Davis was told; Davis arrived later).
  • Booking into Utah County Jail; warrants; interviews of parents and Mitchell; Mitchell's later handwritten Rule 1102 statement (03/31 meeting reported in press).
  • Lance Twiggs interviewed twice; foundation for recorded interview.
  • Rooftop .223 round discussion.

Defense (Richard Novak) vs. prosecution (Lauren Hunt) over publishing Twiggs' recorded Rule 1102 interview and associated Discord/texts to cameras — fair-trial vs. transparency (Estes v. Texas arguments). Jeffrey Neiman (Kirk family) presses for public evidence display.

Interesting In This Area​

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Days in Court

Every reported court date in case 251403576, in order, with what happened on each one. The calendar is where the shape of the prosecution becomes visible — a gag order in December, a sealing fight in March, a contempt finding in June, then five days of sworn testimony in July. Some dates exist only as filings, because the certified minute entries have never been published.

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Preliminary Hearing

A week of sessions in Provo where the ATF ballistics, the rooftop, the autopsy and the phone evidence were finally tested under cross-examination. The day-by-day record of who said what on the stand.

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Preliminary Hearing — Day 4

The verbatim fourth day: a tiered ruling on which exhibits the gallery and the cameras were allowed to see, the immunised roommate interview played in open court, the wooded-area rifle walkthrough, and an ATF examiner calling the jacket comparison inconclusive. The state rested at the end of it. Read the words rather than the headlines about them.

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Page 2 of a defense brief in State v. Tyler Robinson, headed ARGUMENT, arguing the State has not met its burden to show probable cause by evidence deemed reliable under Rule 1102, and that the State cannot establish the high-probability-of-death aggravator.

Defense Bindover Brief — Hearsay and the 'Intended Target' Aggravator

A page of the actual defense filing, arguing the State has not met its burden on reliable evidence and cannot establish the high-probability-of-death aggravator. Read the document rather than the summary of it.

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Sources​

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Interesting​

  • The defense bench includes a death-penalty manual editor and Menendez retrial counsel.
  • An ATF examiner reportedly testified the fragment could not be tied to the Mauser.
  • Investigators point to a body-adjacent device, not a rifle round, plus camera dead zones.
  • Tyler Robinson
  • Proof Not Tyler
  • Timeline