What’s weird is the sequence. Ethical lawyers, upon getting evidence from the other side that they think may have been sent by mistake, do what the plaintiffs’ lawyers did and asked. So the defense lawyers KNEW they turned it over, at least as of a couple days ago. They failed to assert privilege (probably because nothing was privileged in them), so they knew.
But on the stand, Jones was apparently surprised, and kept lying about not having any relevant texts right up until the plaintiffs’ lawyer told him he had the texts.
Why didn’t Jones know what his own attorneys knew, that his texts were in the hands of the plaintiffs?