Jones should be frightened about potentially being charged with perjury.

“I would say when you’re Alex Jones the possibility of a prosecution is ratcheted up by, one, his high profile and, two, his unlikability if that’s the right word,” Georgetown Law Professor Michael Frisch told me. “I mean the reality is prosecutors in criminal cases exercise discretion and he’s a pretty big get. He almost begs for it.”

Bankston, in a separate hearing on Thursday, suggested that there’s already a potential “law enforcement” investigation of Jones underway.

As Frisch noted, it would not only be the Department of Justice that might have jurisdiction in a perjury case, but rather “it’s much more likely to be a state court prosecutor in Texas.”

In a hearing on Thursday over a request by Reynal for a mistrial due to the publicization of the inadvertent disclosure to the jury, Bankston revealed more about how the cell phone data got into his hands, why it was fair game to use in court, and what he might do with it next. The revelations should make Jones—and anyone with whom he may have had compromising text messages—shudder.