Ok, I will admit I didn't fully retain everything from the stream and watched it quite late in evening for me, but from my recall, Nick noted that the charge was dropped by the prosecutor. As the charge was Terroristic Threats, I can see why they probably did not proceed as that would be a hard one to prove.
Now, why they didn't amend the charge to something else, like uttering threats or something similar, I don't get that. Whether there was some form of external (or internal) influence to let him off, or through the various continuances, they realized they were dealing with a mentally challenged person and bullied "child" they went soft on him and let him off the hook, who knows. I also did not see anything in the police report about them finding an actual gun.
In looking at the case history, it was a number of continuance motions before a motion to dismiss, w/o prejudice, was filed by the Prosecutor. So it didn't even make it to the Preliminary Hearing stage to determine if there was enough evidence to proceed to a trial. I didn't see anything noted on the history about any evidence being filed for use in the PH, so I don't know if there would be anything of any substantive nature in the court's file in any event. I also don't see anything about a sealing order or anything like that, so it should be publicly available in my view, if a file would actually be retained (or at least available to public) for a dropped criminal charge. The only "Order" would be those granting continuances and the Order dismissing the charge. If there was a Sealing Order, it should be noted in the case history. But again, why would you need such an Order for a case that was not prosecuted. A US legal person can clarify that as I do not know the answer and I am in Canada so different laws and such here.
So, while it is odd the judge had same last name, the fact that the charge they laid to begin with was a bit weird when it should have been something less like the uttering threats that would easily be proven, I can see why they had to dismiss it. But again, why they didn't alter the charge is a bit weird, unless as I said, they saw it was just a young guy who was frustrated cause he looked like a tread, would never get a girl and had it hard at school and they felt sorry for him.
That's my take/recall from this hit list thing on Nick's stream. I guess in a way it was kind of the deflowering of or coming out of the persona of who Russell Greer is today!
