Legal Documents — State v. Robinson
Tyler Robinson is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent. Nothing on this page states as fact that any living person committed a crime, destroyed evidence, or acted improperly. Court filings in this case are subject to a gag order and sealing, so the public record is incomplete by design.
What This Directory Is
Legal Documents is the primary-source layer under Court & Trial. Everything else in the court section — the day pages, the witness roster, the AI defense attorney exercise — is written from press accounts, pool reporting and transcripts. This directory is where the filings themselves go, so that any claim made elsewhere can be checked against the document rather than against a report of the document.
Case: State of Utah v. Tyler James Robinson, Case No. 251403576, Fourth Judicial District Court, Provo Department, before the Honorable Tony F. Graf Jr.
What Is Held Now
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Docket entries known to exist | 867 |
| Of those, marked private or sealed on the docket | 62 |
| Docket entries for which a public PDF was ever posted anywhere | 258 |
| Primary-source PDFs held in this archive | 374 |
| Machine-readable Markdown conversions | 378 |
| Preliminary hearing transcript words held | ~197,600 |
| Preliminary hearing exhibit images held | 91 |
The count of documents held is higher than the count of docket entries with a public PDF because the archive also holds search-warrant affidavits, GRAMA productions, appellate orders and transcripts that are not numbered docket entries in the trial court.
The full working index — every file, what it says, its page count, its size and
its SHA-256 — is site/docs/court/legal_docs/tracking.txt in the repository.
That file also carries the gap list and the acquisition routes.
The Preliminary Hearing
The preliminary hearing ran five days in July 2026 before Judge Graf. Two independent sources agree the days were 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 July 2026.
Certified transcripts — prepared by the court reporter, Phoebe S. Moorhead, RDR, CRR — are held for Day 4 (278 pages) and Day 5 (97 pages) only.
For Days 1, 2 and 3 the archive holds only commercial transcriptions of the court-authorized pool video feed. These are useful for searching and for finding where in the record something was said. They are not the certified record and must not be cited as one.
Documents Still To Obtain
462 of the 867 docket rows have no public copy. Most of those are clerical — Returns of Electronic Notification and Requests to Submit. Stripping the clerical noise leaves 119 substantive filings that nobody outside the court holds. The largest and most consequential clusters:
| Missing | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| The disqualification motion and its exhibits, unredacted (dockets 236, 276, 278) | The largest body of sealed substantive material on the docket. Only the public 47-page version is held. |
| The motion to exclude cameras, unredacted (dockets 302, 396) | Held only in redacted form. The redacted material is the expert declaration and the survey data underneath it. |
| Eight hearing transcripts | Including preliminary hearing Days 1–3, and the 17 April 2026 hearing, which the docket itself marks unavailable. |
| All hearing audio | Judge Graf ordered the 24 October 2025 sealed-hearing audio released in redacted form. No copy has ever been published anywhere. |
| The State's 34 preliminary hearing exhibits | Named with Bates numbers on the State's own exhibit list. None are held as documents. |
| Expert reports | Served in discovery, never filed, therefore never public. |
| Warrants after 6 October 2025 | A second Apple production of roughly 170 GB arrived in August 2026, so a 2026 warrant exists and is not held. |
| Everything from 1 September 2026 | Bind-over argument was set for that date. It had not happened when this page was written. |
There is also a documented numbering anomaly in the State's own exhibit list: it runs 1 through 16.4, jumps to 19, then 20–25, then 30–34. Exhibits 17, 18, 26, 27, 28 and 29 are absent from the list. Whether they were withdrawn, renumbered or held back is an open question the certified transcripts should answer.
Where To Get Them
| Route | Reaches | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Utah Xchange | Every non-sealed filing at once — the only route that closes the whole gap | $10 one-time account + $0.35/search + $1.00 per document; about $150 for the 119 substantive filings |
Audio recordings, form 1100GE to recordingrequest4th@utcourts.gov | Hearing audio, including the redacted 24 Oct 2025 recording | $15.00 per half-day plus media — by far the cheapest primary-source route |
| Noteworthy Reporting LLC, (801) 634-5549 | Certified transcripts for preliminary hearing Days 1–3 | $6.00/page at 30-day service, roughly $250 per court hour |
| Fourth District Court clerk, Provo | Certified copies, and a written ruling on any request for an unredacted version | $0.25/sheet; a written denial under Rule 4-202.05 is itself a citable record |
| GRAMA to the Utah County Attorney | Agency records rather than filings | Free to file; appeal refusals to the State Records Committee |
| Utah appellate docket search | The two July 2026 Supreme Court orders denying interlocutory review | Free, but CAPTCHA-gated, so it must be done by a person |
A Note On Two Things That Look Like Censorship And Are Not
Two hosts failed during the sweep that produced this page, and both failures were tested against unrelated control URLs before anything was concluded:
- The Utah County Attorney's case-update page returns 404 and the site's whole content backend returns 503. The backend root itself returns 503, so this is a site-wide outage, not a takedown of this case's material.
- The Internet Archive's playback layer returned 503 and 429 throughout. Unrelated control snapshots failed identically. The Archive's index layer stayed up and confirms the captures still exist.
Neither is evidence of suppression, and neither is described as such anywhere in this archive. Running that control test is what separates an outage from a cover-up, and it is run every time.
How Documents Are Stored In This Repository
Three locations, and they are not interchangeable:
- The PDFs live in
site/internals/static/court/filings/, which Docusaurus copies verbatim into the build. They are served at/court/filings/...and can be linked from any page. - Machine-readable text lives in
site/docs/court/legal_docs/_markdown/(one Markdown file per PDF) and_text/(plain text and the hearing transcripts). Both directory names begin with an underscore, so Docusaurus excludes them from the built site. - Pages describing documents go in
site/docs/court/legal_docs/, which is this directory.
A PDF placed under site/docs/ is not served and will 404 for every real
visitor while appearing to work locally.
The Markdown conversions were produced with pymupdf4llm, which reads the PDF's
own layout objects and emits real tables — which matters because the exhibit
lists and witness lists are column data. Seventeen of the court's signed orders
are image-only PDFs carrying digital signatures; those were OCR'd to a separate
text file so that every original PDF still carries its intact signature.
Where a Markdown conversion and the PDF differ, the PDF governs.
Honest Statement Of Completeness
This archive holds 374 primary-source documents against a docket of 867 entries. Judged against every docket row that is not clerical, it is close to complete for everything that has ever been made public, and it is missing everything that has not — which is the sealed material, the exhibits, the expert reports, the audio, and most of the transcripts.
The honest summary is that the public record of this case has been assembled
about as far as it can be without spending money at the courthouse. The
remaining routes are priced, named and ranked in tracking.txt. The cheapest
one that would move the needle most is the audio: $15 per half-day for
recordings that nobody has ever published.
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