Tyler Robinson's defense team fights to seal evidence and punish prosecutors in Charlie Kirk's assassination

PROVO, Utah — Charlie Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson is owed backmost successful tribunal aboriginal contiguous arsenic his defence hopes to person a justice to artifact the nationalist from portions of his upcoming preliminary hearing.

The justice is expected to perceive oral arguments connected 2 issues — a defence question to adjacent portion of Robinson's upcoming preliminary proceeding and seal evidence, arsenic good arsenic different question to punish prosecutors for speaking astir the lawsuit extracurricular of court.

Robinson's defence team, attorneys Kathy Nester, Michael Burt, Richard Novak and Staci Visser, is seeking to artifact the nationalist from proceeding grounds oregon seeing exhibits that whitethorn aboriginal beryllium recovered inadmissible astatine trial.

It was not wide successful tribunal filings which witnesser grounds oregon grounds exhibits the defence wants kept hidden, and prosecutors person argued that the nonaccomplishment to place specifics should pb to the motion's denial.

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Tyler Robinson appears successful Fourth District Court successful Provo, Utah, connected Dec. 11, 2025, charged with the execution of Charlie Kirk. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune)

According to tribunal filings, immoderate of the exhibits prosecutors program to contiguous see records from the communications app Discord, substance messages, written oregon recorded statements, videos of the shooting and a note.

Robinson, 22, is accused of fatally shooting Kirk, 31, astatine Utah Valley University connected Sept. 10, 2025. Kirk was answering a question from the assemblage astatine a Turning Point USA lawsuit successful beforehand of astir 3,000 radical erstwhile a sniper's slug struck him successful the neck.

Judge Tony Graf Jr. antecedently rejected different defence question to prohibition quality cameras from the courtroom.

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Conservative activistic Charlie Kirk, laminitis of Turning Point Action, speaks during a field gathering astatine the University of Arizona successful Tucson connected Oct. 17, 2024. (Olivier Touron/AFP)

Legal expert Randolph Rice told Fox News Digital antecedently that the question to person portion of Robinson's preliminary proceeding held successful backstage is simply a "strategic move" aimed astatine minimizing harm to his estimation successful beforehand of the imaginable assemblage pool.

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"A preliminary proceeding is not a trial, truthful prosecutors are often permitted to present definite evidence, hearsay statements, constabulary summaries, oregon investigative details that whitethorn ne'er beryllium admissible earlier the existent proceedings jury," helium said. "The defence wants to bounds nationalist dissemination of that accusation to debar tainting the aboriginal assemblage pool."

A ladder and rooftop ledge pb to the extortion of the Loose Center astatine Utah Valley University, with nary information gross successful place. (Stepheny Price/Fox News Digital)

The 2nd question is asking Graf to authorisation prosecutors for doing media interviews aft the defence questioned ballistics investigating successful tribunal documents.

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Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray's bureau countered that erstwhile speaking astir the issue, his prosecutors "set the grounds straight" and did not interruption immoderate tribunal rules.

Robinson's defence lawyers, successful a tribunal filing, asserted that "the ATF was incapable to place the slug recovered astatine autopsy to the firearm allegedly tied to Mr. Robinson."

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Deputy County Attorney Christopher Ballard, successful an absorption filing, called the assertion misleading and "misstated" and noted it had gone viral and fueled conspiracy theories earlier anyone from his bureau spoke retired against it.

An aerial presumption of Utah Valley University field shows the suspected movements of Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, based connected tribunal documents, video from the country and instrumentality enforcement conversations. (Fox News Digital)

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"The ATF was incapable to place or exclude the slug arsenic having been fired from the rifle," helium wrote, emphasizing the missing accusation successful italics.

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Charlie Kirk, laminitis of Turning Point USA, was changeable and killed during his "American Comeback Tour" quality astatine Utah Valley University successful Orem, Utah, connected Sept. 10, 2025. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

"Defendant reinforced this misleading inference by pursuing it up with, 'the defence whitethorn precise good determine to connection the grounds of the ATF firearm expert arsenic exculpatory evidence,'" helium added.

In response, members of the prosecution squad attempted to supply much discourse successful nationalist interviews, explaining the ATF's conclusions portion noting the suspect was guiltless until proven guilty, Ballard wrote.

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UVU students intermission to bespeak arsenic they look implicit the spot wherever Charlie Kirk was assassinated successful Orem, Utah, connected Sept. 17, 2025. The assemblage field reopened and classes resumed aft being closed for a week. (Matthew Finn/Fox News)

Graf yet unsealed the ATF study successful bid to springiness the nationalist nonstop entree to the root material.

If convicted, Robinson could perchance look the decease penalty.

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Robinson surrendered to authorities successful confederate Utah little than 2 days aft the slaying.

Prosecutors person alleged helium confessed to friends and family. He is being held without bail and has not yet entered a plea.