Defense wants to delay prelim exam (probable cause) hearing for...reasons related to DNA?
State arguing there's no reason to delay. PC is clear. State laying out their case.
He's on video going to campus, walking around, returning wearing different clothes with a rifle in his pants. He leaves, gun found, handwritten messages on bullets. Confessed. Left handwritten note, texted lover, admitted to doing it. Admitted in text group chat he did it. Admits he knows where the rifle is. Turned himself in with help from a law enforcement acquaintance. There's your probable cause.
DNA tested and confirmed by two different labs.
But the defense wants to delay the probable cause hearing because they want to do more with the DNA testing. But that's not the point of a probable cause hearing. Absent the DNA they still have PC.
I'm telling you folks, this defense team's strategy in every case is delay delay delay delay delay delay motion motion motion motion motion whine whine whine whine. As common as that is for defense teams, this one will take the cake (and eat it too).