Preliminary hearings to determine if former Beta Theta Pi members should go to trial for Tim Piazza’s death continued today at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte as attorneys spent most of the day questioning and cross-examining Detective David Scicchitano, who investigated the case.

Centre County District Attorney reportedly “clashed repeatedly” with defense attorneys, as reported by NBC News Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez.

Shouting match erupts between prosecutor & defense attorney Ted Simon: "Play the tape!" "Shame on you! Lying to the judge!"

— Gabe Gutierrez (@gabegutierrez) July 10, 2017

Prosecutor & defense attys have clashed repeatedly during these proceedings. Judge has appeared reluctant to step in. https://t.co/Ussu1iTeXF

— Gabe Gutierrez (@gabegutierrez) July 10, 2017

What you should know about new developments:

Scicchitano confirmed Penn State athletic trainer Tim Bream was at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house for bid acceptance night, according The Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Erin McCarthy.

Fina references text from Gilmartin: "…so people don't get screenshots or anything that could leak to media. Tim's idea as a precaution."

— Erin McCarthy (@erinK_mccarthy) July 10, 2017

Scicchitano: Bream told police he watched the bid-acceptance part of the night, the part without alcohol. Then went to his room.

— Erin McCarthy (@erinK_mccarthy) July 10, 2017

Bream was a live-in advisor at the fraternity house, but this was not a part of his official duty in his capacity as a Penn State employee, university officials say. Nonetheless, speculators were shocked when Bream was not even mentioned in the grand jury presentment released in May.

Scicchitano also said the Interfraternity Council’s hired security guards had checked in on the Beta Theta Pi fraternity social that night, within 10 minutes of Piazza’s first fall down the basement steps, according to McCarthy.

Scicchitano confirms that two uniformed "social checkers" could be seen on video doing this before Piazza was brought upstairs after fall.

— Erin McCarthy (@erinK_mccarthy) July 10, 2017

For those not familiar with IFC systems, the organization contracted these security personnel to keep fraternity events under control. However, any student who has ever attended a fraternity party will tell you they generally take this job lightly. Students at most fraternity socials — including Beta Theta Pi’s bid acceptance — would not be “carded” or in any other way reprimanded for underage drinking.

McCarthy noted Scicchitano said he had not interviewed the two “social checkers” and had not accessed a copy of a form they supposedly filled out after quickly surveying the social. The portion of surveillance video when they arrived was not shown in court.

Rehashing from the grand jury presentment:

The remainder of the day was spent reviewing text messages exchanged before, during, and after bid acceptance proceedings between members of the fraternity and a few outsiders. Leaders notably tried to cover up what had happened by deleting GroupMe messages and Facebook groups.

Scicchitano outlined the text messages he recovered from fraternity members, which were all included in the grand jury presentment released at the end of the spring semester. He also identified receipts for purchasing the alcohol for the bid acceptance night and prior pledging events.

The hearing will continue tomorrow morning at 8:30, again at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte. You can catch up on the first day of preliminary hearings, which featured a screening of surveillance footage from inside the fraternity house, here.