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Defense attorneys and prosecutors spar over whether to share full statement with court and cameras

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A dispute over public access to a recorded statement that the former roommate of Tyler James Robinson, the 23-year-old accused of murdering Charlie Kirk, gave investigators took center stage on the third day of a hearing to determine whether there is probable cause for the case to move to trial.

The statement from Lance Twiggs, whom authorities say was also Robinson’s romantic partner, has been the source of public intrigue. Robinson allegedly left a handwritten note for Twiggs where he wrote he had an “opportunity to take out” the conservative commentator and was “going to take it”.