Welcome to the Darkness,

I'm your host, Bob Manna, and I am joined by my fabulous co-host, Ali.

Hi, Ali. Hey, so we're back. We are here on the breaking news on the Idaho 4 case.

Today, I believe is May 17th, and the news broke. I think overnight, and I tweeted it about

the crack of dawn. I want to say five in the morning, and it was a little bit of a risky endeavor,

because the news came through a ban field on news nation, and I'm sometimes apprehensive

about relying on them as a source, because they tend to rely on, you know,

unnamed sources, and you know that's on my game. Like, I'm a big, big, very big on,

getting named sources. I want reliable information, and like, the speculation thing is on my game.

Right, but you did your own due diligence. You looked at the docket, you put two and two together,

and there you go. Indeed, I did. And then later in the day, after I tweeted, I then saw that the

indictments themselves had been filed with the circuit clerk. So that confirmed it. I felt a great

deal of relief, because I would have looked like a bit of a jackass. Never. Had it been, but you know,

what I did see, I went on the docket, and I saw that they canceled the preliminary hearing for

June 30th, which I think all of us were looking forward to just because of the huge amount of

interest in this case, and people that kind of understand, and people that definitely follow us,

they would have known that that would have been a mini trial. They had carved out multiple days

for that thing. It would have been a full-blown hearing. And I had been saying, and I was trying

to find out the first time I tweeted it, that this thing, I would be stunned, even though they

rarely ever do, they go to the grand jury in Idaho. They typically almost always go to preliminary

hearings. As a matter of fact, there's a statute, a speedy preliminary hearing statute in Idaho that

basically says that the state had 14 days by which to bring it to preliminary hearing, otherwise

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