Tyler Robinson Preliminary Hearing: The Final Day Part 1

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**Blake** (1:17)
Today is the final day of the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing. I guess I should say we hope, because every step of this process has been as elongated as it could possibly be, it feels.
We're approaching the one-year mark of Charlie's death. Tyler Robinson, the defendant, the accused, formerly has not actually been even charged yet. We've had a year of proceedings just to decide whether this case has enough evidence to proceed to trial. We had an entire week of preliminary hearing in July, where we had testimony presented and video presented and DNA evidence presented. It felt a lot like a trial, but it was actually only a preliminary hearing. Then at the end of it, Judge Graf overseeing the case said, we now need to wait two months. You'll get to make closing arguments then, and then I will rule. Well, we've reached the day set for those closing arguments. We'll be going to that hearing as soon as it is visible to the media, open to the public for the time being. My understanding is the hearing either has started or is about to start. They'll be hashing out a defense motion related to what specific evidence is able to be viewed by the public. Hopefully, that will only go about 45 minutes to an hour, and then we'll be able to get inside the courtroom. But until then, we will be talking about, I'd say, I think Danny, we should talk about what's happened in the last two months. We remember, if you haven't been following every maneuver of this case, back in July, we had a week of preliminary hearings that was primarily the prosecution making its probable cause case. So we got a lot of evidence that we'd heard about, but had not seen yet was finally presented to the public. We saw surveillance footage from UVU, which showed the suspect, who we believe was Tyler Robinson, walking around campus multiple times in different outfits. In one of them, the person appears to be limping in a strange way, like they have something hidden under their clothes, that is believed to be the rifle. We saw footage of them on the rooftop, going into position and then fleeing the scene after the fatal shot. We saw discussion of DNA evidence. We saw testimony, and the most compellingly, we saw testimony from Lance Twiggs. So that all happened. Since then, we've been waiting on these final arguments. And one of the things that happened about three weeks ago was we got a filing from the Defense that was in text form their final briefing of the case they are making prior to the bind over hearing. And what we highlighted and is worth highlighting is both what they talk about and what they didn't talk about. Because this, it was a 41-page filing, and in this 41-page filing, they never really debunked any of the core attacks or any of the core claims from the prosecution that Tyler Robinson engaged in the shooting. Instead, it was entirely focused on trying to undercut the case for the death penalty. As we've discussed, in Utah, actually in every state, to get the death penalty in a murder case, you need aggravating factors. You can't just have it as the default penalty for first degree murder. So they need aggravations such as many people were in danger, that children were in danger, that there was a political or like a hate based motive for the crime. And so they offered evidence for that. And the defense did try to push back on that. They tried to argue quite literally in this 41 page filing. They argued that the defendant was basically a good shot, that he hit his intended target, and so therefore he was not putting other people's lives recklessly in danger at UVU. That was part of their 41 page filing.