The Pima Post

On the first day of Myers' probation-revocation hearing in August, Matthew Walker took the stand and testified about emails that mentioned the Second Amendment and "2A." He told the court they felt like a threat. The messages, as described in the warrant and in open reporting, were profane and abusive: misogynistic names, talk of sexual assault, a demand that Shannon Walker resign, and language wishing her dead. They were the spine of the county's claim that Myers' YouTube videos about Shannon Walker had harassed her and set other people on her.

The warrant focuses on one Proton account whose sender name nods at the Second Amendment. Investigators have not publicly pinned the keyboard to a specific person in the household. That caveat is the difference between a charge and a cartoon, and this newspaper will keep it. What the caveat does not do is rescue the testimony. A prosecutor described those emails to a judge as a menace. The internet account that sent at least two of them, Comcast told a detective, was the one assigned to his house.

Resnick's impression, after the November 2 meeting, was that the account was Matthew Walker's. Impressions are not verdicts. They are, in this case, the impression of the defense lawyer the county itself called in after the search. The county is, Resnick said, looking at potential criminal charges. He commended the office for telling him. "I know it's what they're supposed to do," he told The Republic, "but it can't be easy when another prosecutor's involved."

Easy is not the standard. Disclosure is. Stiles ordered transcripts and said the new information put the integrity of the sentencing evidence in question. That is a prosecutor doing the thing the job description advertises and the culture often treats as optional. Credit is not a pardon for the pipeline that put Myers in Kingman. It is a receipt.

Walker has not answered the press. The city has not said whether its prosecutor is at his desk or on ice. A silence that large, next to a seized city laptop, is its own kind of testimony. It just isn't sworn.

There is a version of this story in which a judge hears the words "exculpatory" and "integrity of the evidence" from the same office that sought the sentence, and the jailer finds his keys. That version did not happen on Tuesday.

Judge Douglas Metcalf ordered Myers transported from prison in Kingman to Pima County Superior Court for an evidentiary hearing on November 17. He said he could not vacate the three-year sentence until that day. Stiles had asked for release in the meantime. The gap between those two positions is fourteen days of a punishment the state has now put in doubt, served at the pace of a minute entry.

Myers is in Kingman because, in early October, Metcalf revoked probation and sent him away for three years. The county had asked for one and a half. The violation, as the state framed it, was YouTube: videos about Shannon Walker after a July 2025 plea to felony stalking and harassment, and after probation terms that restricted what he could post about the Walkers. First Amendment lawyers had already called those terms a gag order with a docket number. Myers stayed off YouTube and lived inside the conditions for about a year. He asked Metcalf to modify them. He was refused. He says he then went to scholars, thought he understood the line, and believed a probation officer would warn him if he crossed it. He was arrested without a warning.

At the four-day hearing, Resnick argued that if strangers harassed Shannon Walker, those strangers should be charged — not the man who made the videos. Metcalf called it a retaliation campaign against the rule of law, a ball Myers rolled because he was angry that Matthew Walker had prosecuted him before. "He knew he was not supposed to do this." The ball, it now appears, may have been rolled in part from inside the house the campaign was supposedly aimed at.

Gray told his livestream audience he was euphoric and furious at once. Euphoric that the county said the quiet part into a microphone. Furious that a man the prosecutor wants freed is still a passenger on the state's clock. Urgency is not a feeling. It is a writ. November 17 is a date. It is not a moral argument.

Mark Resnick is glad they called. So is this newspaper, with a caveat the size of a prison bus.

A prosecutor who discovers that evidence used to imprison someone may have come from the accuser's own router, and who then tells the court and the defense, is doing the job. Stiles said so in open court, on an emergency setting, and she asked for release. Mosher sat in the Monday meeting. The Pima County Attorney's Office does not get a parade for obeying Brady. It does get this sentence, printed without sarcasm: they told the truth when the truth was embarrassing, and the embarrassment had a badge.

The caveat: Myers is still serving the sentence that truth just punctured. The city will not say if Walker is at work. Stiles has not answered repeated questions from reporters. Tucson police did not immediately respond either. Disclosure in a courtroom and silence everywhere else is a familiar Pima dialect. We understood it in the last extra. We understand it better now that the silence has a property address.

Potential criminal charges, Resnick was told, are under consideration. This page will not draft them. Charging a prosecutor is the county's burden, and it should be a careful one — identify or exclude, as the warrant itself says, and do not launder an IP address into a novel. Careful is not the same as leisurely. The man in Kingman is not an exhibit. He is the exhibit's alleged author, currently locked up for a correspondence that may have been typed on the other side of the injunction.

No. 2 asked whether the system was corrupt. No. 3 sharpens the question. A system that can convict on emails, then discover the emails came from the prosecutor's house, then book the sequel for the middle of the month, is not confused. It is sequenced. The decent act has already happened. The decent speed has not.