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Jeff Metcalf on Enduring the Unendurable

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Jay Town Live: Defense Tactics and the 'Laborious' Objections

At 8:15 · chapter starts 6:27

Jay Town, a career prosecutor and former U.S. Attorney, joins the show by phone to provide expert legal commentary on what he's observing. He praises the prosecution for its methodical approach — calling roughly 4 police officers to authenticate 40-50 exhibits — but pulls no punches on the defense: they are objecting to everything on foundation grounds despite there being no rules of evidence in a preliminary hearing. Every objection is being overruled and every exhibit admitted anyway, making the defence's moves a waste of time in the room but potentially valuable for an appellate record. Town draws an analogy: if your daughter photographs your backyard, you can still authenticate it as your backyard without being there when the photo was taken. The defense, he concludes, knows the evidence is overwhelming and is gambling on an appeals court somewhere, years from now, reversing a ruling — forcing a new trial when witnesses are dead or memories have faded.

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Jay Town Breaks Down the Tyler Robinson Preliminary Hearing

Jeff Metcalf on Enduring the Unendurable · Jul 6, 2026 Government

Former U.S. Attorney Jay Town explains the legal mechanics of the Tyler Robinson preliminary hearing: the prosecution is methodically entering 40-50 exhibits through 4 police officers, while the defense objects to everything despite there being no rules of evidence. The objections are theater — all will be overruled — but they're building an appellate record for a future appeal.

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