It is important to remember that the defense has access to literally millions of datapoints that the public does not have and does not need. The defense has regarded online conspiracy theories that support their client as hostile to their aims, not supportive. The defense doesn't want or need a "public investigation" because it is meaningless, ill-formed nonsense. Public liars and public idiots have the same output even if their motivations differ: producing nonsense. The defense knows Tyler is guilty because they have him and they have the data. This is why they are asking for three years before trial prep. You don't ask for your innocent client to sit for three years in jail if you have any shot at proving his innocence. But you do keep your guilty client locked up and extend the window in the hopes of producing jury taint or hoping the prosecutors violate a rule and create a procedural victory. They want either public interest to die down OR for the public "investigation" to sufficiently interfere with Tyler's fair trial rights. The defense lost on removing the death penalty; winning a three year trial window gives them access to SOME leverage in plea negotiations. Utah wants to convict on a shorter timeline and that becomes a negotiation point for a plea. Do you want the death penalty bad enough to wait years or would life in prison now be preferrable? Really good attorneys (like @aburkhartlaw, for example) are trying to help lead you to the well of reason and reasonable expectation. You should listen to them rather than people who are short on facts and wrong on law, like @baroncoleman and @DiligentDenizen. And you should listen to me if you want to hear the same stuff, but I also call Baron and Diligent fucking morons who are unattractive.