Robert Madsen

Robert Madsen served as defense counsel for Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. and participated in jury selection, witness examinations, evidentiary disputes, and later trial proceedings. During individual juror questioning, he described his role as one of Jones's lawyers and asked prospective jurors about their personal views and ability to be fair and impartial.

Madsen's questioning addressed both factual and mental-health-related themes. He asked forensic drug analyst Keith McMahan about AB-Pinaca and the timing of restrictions, receiving testimony that the drug's effects on the human body were outside the analyst's expertise. In a defense examination, his questions moved chronologically through symptom onset, untreated illness, evaluation, medication, and recovery.

On redirect of Sergeant Adam Creech, Madsen elicited that Jones voluntarily spoke with investigators and that his cooperation made the investigation easier. He also addressed an unrecorded May 9 conversation, Creech's failure to follow up on a request to contact Jones's mother, and reported statements and emotional reactions attributed to Jones. At the same proceeding, the court reaffirmed its exclusion of Exhibits 109 through 113, autopsy-room photographs, finding them prejudicial and not reflective of the condition in which Jones left the bodies.

Madsen also redirected DSS caseworker Sherry Henry on the closure of a 2014 case and the written terms of a later safety plan. Henry read conditions concerning care for a diaper rash, basic care, and cleaning the trailer; she agreed the written plan did not state a no-corporal-punishment condition, though she described that as its intended meaning. The court admitted Defendant's Exhibit 235 after discussion of an earlier copy.