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Andrea,

Thank you so much for maintaining this archive.

I have been reading through the founding documents carefully — the Probable Cause Affidavit, the Information, the Public Safety Assessment — and a specific question has emerged that I cannot answer from the public record alone.

When did Tyler Robinson first have legal representation?

Here is what I can see in the documents: He arrived at the Washington County Sheriff's Office around 9 PM on September 11. Brooksby's office explicitly did not question him during the two and a half hours he waited. Formal arrest is timestamped 4:00 AM on September 12. The Public Safety Assessment was generated at 8:21 AM the same morning. His first court appearance was September 16, at which point the Information states a judge would appoint counsel.

What I cannot find anywhere in the available record is a Miranda advisement, a rights waiver, or any reference to an attorney being present at any point before that September 16 hearing.

More specifically — the family friend's conversation with Robinson, in which Robinson stated he had disposed of his clothing, appears to have occurred before formal arrest and without counsel present. That statement became Count 4 in the charging documents.

Is that accurate? And is it legally sustainable?

I want to make sure I am reading these documents correctly.

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