Charlie Kirk judge to rule on Tyler Robinson's attempt to have potential death penalty removed

Charlie Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson is expected to larn whether a Utah justice volition assistance his defence team's petition to person the imaginable decease punishment taken disconnected the array successful effect to alleged gag bid violations by the prosecution Friday.

Judge Tony Graf Jr. is expected to regularisation connected whether prosecutors violated his gag bid oregon authorities tribunal rules and, if so, what the imaginable sanctions should be.

Robinson's defence squad has said the lone due remedy is to region the imaginable decease punishment — which Utah County prosecutors accidental would beryllium a disproportionate response, if the justice sides with the defense.

"The lone mode that this Court tin show that its orders, and the ethical rules that counsel indispensable obey, are not optional erstwhile it comes to the State’s attorneys, adjacent successful this case, is to enforce the authorisation undersigned counsel person urged upon this Court: striking the State’s decease notice," reads the filing, signed by defence attorneys Kathryn Nester, Richard Novak, Michael Burt and Staci Visser.

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Tyler Robinson is accused of fatally shooting Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk astatine a nationalist speaking lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University successful September. (Bethany Baker/Pool via REUTERS, Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

Prosecutors person countered that they did not interruption the gag bid oregon immoderate different tribunal rules erstwhile they "set the grounds straight" aft what they telephone a misleading connection from a defence filing led to viral quality sum suggesting that the ATF could not lucifer the slug that killed Charlie Kirk to the suspected execution weapon, Robinson's grandfather's rifle.

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The ATF could neither place nor exclude Robinson's grandfather's firearm arsenic the root of the slug fragment recovered from Kirk, describing the instrumentality people investigation arsenic inconclusive, according to tribunal records. But the caliber was consistent, and a spent casing was besides a match.

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Charlie Kirk throws a "Make America Great Again" chapeau to the assemblage astatine Utah Valley University successful Orem, Utah, connected Sept. 10, 2025. Kirk, laminitis of Turning Point USA, was speaking astatine his "American Comeback Tour" erstwhile helium was changeable successful the cervix and killed. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)

Neither the gag bid connected Robinson's lawsuit nor authorities tribunal rules prohibited prosecutors from correcting what they saw arsenic the defense's misleading tribunal filing, according to prosecutors.

Prosecutors person said they program to question the decease punishment if Robinson is convicted of assassinating Kirk during a Turning Point USA lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University connected Sept. 10, 2025.

Investigators hunt a taped-off country successful Orem, Utah, connected Sept. 11, 2025, related to the hunt for grounds successful the assassination of Charlie Kirk during a rally astatine UVU. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)

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The back-and-forth has evolved into a warfare of words, with prosecutors accusing the defence of releasing misleading accusation done tribunal filings, and the defence accusing prosecutors of "hubris" erstwhile responding successful a drawstring of media interviews they assertion interruption a gag order.

Robinson volition be remotely from jail. He has not yet entered a plea and is not expected to until aft his preliminary hearing, which is scheduled to instrumentality spot implicit a week successful aboriginal July.