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D4VD's Defense Reversal Reveals More Than They Intended

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Tony Brueski

News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.2612 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Confidence at the arraignment. Caution less than two weeks later. David Anthony Burke's defense team demanded a fast preliminary hearing — then asked for a delay after the discovery started arriving.

Blair Berk told the court at the arraignment that the prosecution's case couldn't withstand scrutiny and pushed for a hearing within ten days. But when the files started landing — including wiretap results, testimony from three grand juries, and roughly forty terabytes of digital evidence — defense attorney Marilyn Bednarski asked Judge Charlaine Olmedo to push the hearing to May 26.

The defense also tried to get the prosecution's nine-page evidence brief sealed from the public. Berk called it "entirely one-sided" and warned it would taint the jury pool. The judge denied the request.

Beth Silverman told the court she'd warned the defense that this volume of evidence was coming. She'd already told witnesses to cancel planned vacations for the original hearing date.

Jennifer Coffindaffer breaks down what changed behind the scenes, what the wiretap tells us about the investigation's reach, and what to watch for at the May 26 hearing.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Drink.

0:07.8

Blair Burke stood up at David Anthony Burke's arraignment and demanded a preliminary hearing within 10 days.

0:16.3

She wanted the evidence in the light of day. She projected confidence. That was last week. This week,

0:23.8

Burke's defense team asked the judge to push the hearing out to May 26. They said they needed

0:28.4

more time to review the discovery. They also tried to get the prosecution's brief sealed. The judge

0:33.1

said no, and that's what we're talking about. Now, Beth Silverman told the court, she warned them, this was coming.

0:39.9

Something changed between the arraignment and that courtroom reversal.

0:44.7

And whatever the defense says in those files, it was enough to make them pump the brakes.

0:50.3

Jennifer Coffin-Daffer, retired FBI special agent, is joining me, along with Robin Drake,

0:54.8

retired FBI special agent. Jan, the defense, demanded that fast hearing and then asked for a delay

1:00.4

less than two weeks later. Silverman told the judge she warned them about how much evidence was coming.

1:06.3

What did the defense see in that discovery that think that made them change course so directly here?

1:13.1

And I'm also wondering how much David's attorney knew of what was coming?

1:18.1

I mean, without seeing the discovery itself, I'm wondering how forthcoming David might have

1:22.6

been to his own defense.

1:23.7

What are your thoughts?

1:25.0

A forthcoming, no, probably known a lot of time to debrief him for the

1:29.2

defense. And when the defense saw what we're all looking at, plus a whole lot more, they, yeah,

1:36.4

this was a total momentum switch. This is like, you know, you're down by 21 points in a football game,

1:42.4

and then they score 21 points. and the whole thing blows up.

1:46.7

That's what this reminds me of total momentum switch because they saw the overwhelming evidence

1:52.6

for the first time. Go ahead. Robin. No, I just had a quick easy one. I said, do you think

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