Uvalde Trial: Mistrial Denied — But Judge May Still Strike Key Witness Testimony
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🗓️ 8 January 2026
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Summary
Judge Sid Harle denied the defense's mistrial motion Wednesday in the Adrian Gonzales trial, but the battle over teacher Stephanie Hale's testimony isn't over. Harle called the prosecution's failure to disclose information "negligent" and will decide Thursday whether to strike Hale's entire testimony from the record.
Hale testified Tuesday that she saw "a person in all black and a long weapon" on the south side of the Robb Elementary campus — the same area where Gonzales was positioned. The defense says that information was never disclosed and called the trial "a trial by ambush." On Tuesday, the Uvalde County DA was even sworn in to testify about what she knew and when she knew it. Her answer: she was "in and out" of witness interviews.
The families aren't hiding their frustration. Jesse Rizo, uncle of victim Jackie Cazares, said watching the prosecution stumble is "so disappointing." His brother Manuel called the prosecution team "incompetent."
Trial resumes Thursday. Gonzales faces 29 counts of child endangerment.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.4 | Here now, Tony Brewski. |
| 0:07.0 | The defense asked for a mistrial on Wednesday in the Adrian Gonzalez trial judge, |
| 0:13.5 | Sid Horrell said no. |
| 0:16.6 | After everything that happened on day one, the halted testimony, |
| 0:20.0 | the accusations of prosecutorial misconduct, the Uvaldi County DA herself, getting sworn in as a witness in her own case. |
| 0:29.6 | The defense made their move. |
| 0:32.3 | They argued that the prosecution's failure to disclose critical information from a key witness and irreparably damage their ability |
| 0:40.1 | to mount a defense. |
| 0:42.1 | They call it a Brady violation. |
| 0:43.4 | They call it a trial by ambush. |
| 0:45.2 | They asked the judge to throw it all out and start over. |
| 0:49.7 | We're going to go into everything that took place in that trial, |
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