YouTube sensation Lane Myers had a very bad day on Tuesday as the day that started with boasts of FBI investigations and the federal government being on his side ended with Myers threatening to sue his own lawyer, taking a plea deal and shutting down his channel.
Tuesday began with yet another livestream by Myers from jail on the “This is a Public Service” channel. The jail either does not have rules against livestreaming jail phone calls or rarely enforces those rules as Myers has gone live multiple times now, giving new directions to his fans and fundraising off his incarceration.
This livestream concerned Myers’ belief that Pima County Attorney Laura Conover was hated by the federal government as she announced she would not be enforcing some of the president’s crackdowns on immigrants.
He assured his fans that if they took action in helping to fight against the “corrupt” Conover, they wouldn’t “go on a watch list” but instead be hailed as “heroes” as the federal government wanted to arrest Conover. Myers threatened Conover and prosecutor Rebeca Stiles with a malicious prosecution lawsuit.
Myers wanted Josh Gray, who runs the “This is a Public Service” channel, to contact Charlie Kirk, Mike Jette, Arizona’s Attorney General and activist Rebekah Massie to help with his case. Of the four, Gray said that he had been in contact with Massie and would be meeting with her later in the day.
Myers demanded a new plea deal where he would plea guilty to one count of harassment, get no jail time, take the videos down in exchange for victim Shannon Walker being charged with perjury for “lying 33 times” in a recent hearing with Myers.
The YouTuber said he felt like the prosecution was trying to get him to take a plea deal because he felt that his Anti-Slapp motion, if heard, would make all of his charges go away and the prosecutor didn’t want that to happen.
Myers also stated that he would be filing to have the case moved out of Pima county, as he felt he could not get a fair trial.
Later, Myers’ “No Bond” hearing was delayed for about ninety minutes for unspecified reasons. When it began, prosecutor Stiles called detective Eric Brown to the stand. Brown essentially recapped the harassment case against Myers.
Myers could be heard muttering and arguing with his attorney, William Parvin, during the entire hearing.
Brown essentially confirmed that Walker has received 58 harassing e-mails and 17 voice mail messages. Portions of the e-mails were read in court along with two threatening voice mail messages.
Attorney Parvin objected to the introduction of the material, stating that he had no proof of where the emails and videos originated or that they were from the time that the hearing was focusing on. He was overruled.
Brown addressed a police report that said that Walker described Myers as an ex-boyfriend. He called it a typo and that Walker did not say that. He could not explain why it was in the police report. When qualifying the information, Brown and prosecutor Stiles confirmed that Myers’ jail calls were being monitored, which seemed to surprise and anger Myers.
Parvin and Myers continued to bicker as Brown’s testimony concluded. Myers began to order Parvin to ask specific questions of Brown in cross examination. He demanded that Parvin ask if the detective felt that victim Shannon Walker was a “State Actor.” Myers then interjected, talking over his attorney and the judge to ask the same question of the witness.
Parvin asked for a side bar, that would be off record. A brief conference was held outside the presence of Myers. Myers was then reminded by the judge that Parvin represented him at the hearing and that he would be given an opportunity to speak at his trial, where he has already filed for and been granted pro se status.
The cross examination wrapped up with Brown’s statement that the harassment of victim Walker has not stopped.
Since they were late in the day, and the defense did not have an opportunity to present their case, the hearing was continued until Wednesday at 2:30PM local time.
Hours later, a despondent Myers returned to Gray’s “This is a Public Service” channel with another livestream.
Myers was angry over Parvin’s performance and stated that he attempted to fire Parvin during the hearing for not asking the “state actor” question. He said that Parvin was running for a position as a judge and didn’t want to risk his reputation by upsetting the judge in the case.
He also stated that he felt that Parvin was a “plant” by the prosecution to lose his “no bond” hearing and keep him in jail until trial. He would later say that he would be suing Parvin and making sure that Parvin lost his law license should he lose the hearing.
Myers was greatly offended that Josh Gray was described as a “friend” during the hearing and not a “journalist covering the case.” He then ordered Gray to get in contact with local lawyer Mark “The Shark” Resnik to take over the case, put more money on Myers’ accounts, and to contact Myers’ wife to call him before lights out at the jail.
The subject of Myers’ wife seemed to concern the YouTuber. He said that his wife rode her bicycle to the hearing and almost fainted over the treatment of her husband. He said that his wife wanted him to take the plea deal which would see him do no jail time, delete the videos, and then sell the house and move somewhere to start over.
Myers threatened similar ideas of taking the plea deal during the evening livestream, as he felt that he wasn’t getting the support he needed from his fans. He was further angered when Gray revealed that he could not make contact with Rebekah Massie as planned, though Gray assured him that the meeting would eventually happen.
Berating Detective Brown, Myers said that Brown’s career would end if he showed up to be cross examined by Myers at trial. He called Brown “low IQ” and that he would impeach Brown in less than five minutes.
He assured his fans that if he served as his own attorney at trial, it would take the jury 20 minutes to find him innocent of all charges and then he would sue Brown for committing perjury during a potential cross examination.
Myers said he would be calling Gray in the morning and the two would be working on a list of questions that Myers would require Parvin to ask during the defense case on Wednesday.
He then complained that because Gray had been ordered to promote his inmate number and how to directly text Myers while in jail and because it cost money to get those messages from his fans, all the money that was put on his jail tablet was used up and he could not contact his wife.
Gray assured Myers that he would have Myers’ wife contact him as he ended the livestream.
Myers raised $510.00 in donations to his GiveSendGo account for Tuesday. Christopher “Denver Metro Audits” Cordova came in second with his first donation of the year, with a $40.00 donation from a regular contributor. No other accounts had donations on the day.
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