Overview
- Prosecutors rested after presenting surveillance video, DNA and ballistics evidence plus text messages, a purported handwritten note and a redacted April interview with Lance Twiggs that prosecutors say recounts Robinson’s admission and remorse.
- Thursday’s playback of Twiggs’s recorded interview included his account that Robinson returned the morning after the Sept. 10 shooting, said he “wished he hadn’t done it,” and planned to surrender, though the judge ordered parts redacted to protect a future jury pool.
- Court livestreams briefly showed an image of the alleged note before it was removed under the judge’s pretrial limits, a mistake defense lawyers argued could prejudice publicity-sensitive proceedings.
- Judge Tony Graf has not yet ruled on probable cause; if he binds Robinson over the case would move toward trial where prosecutors seek death-penalty aggravators tied to endangering bystanders and alleged political motive.
- The hearing underscored two ongoing fights that could shape the case: the defense’s challenges to forensic links and the broader appeals over what evidence the public and media may see before trial, with family members and public figures attending the proceedings.