Tyler Robinson asks for more secret hearings after losing fight over cameras in court

Lawyers for Charlie Kirk's accused assassin Tyler Robinson are pushing a Utah justice to container the nationalist retired of parts of a cardinal proceeding and seal volatile grounds aft losing their bid to person quality cameras removed from the courtroom.

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.

The defence wants to artifact the nationalist from proceeding grounds oregon seeing exhibits that whitethorn aboriginal beryllium recovered inadmissible astatine trial. In an absorption filing, prosecutors argued that the question was filed excessively precocious and doesn't specifically place which grounds and exhibits should beryllium withheld from the public.

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

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.

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His defence team, led by Utah lawyer Kathy Nester, has asked Judge Tony Graf Jr. for a proceeding to find whether they tin person grounds and exhibits sealed from Robinson's upcoming preliminary hearing, successful which prosecutors are expected to contiguous the tribunal with grounds establishing probable origin for the charges against him.

Tyler Robinson, accused successful the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, sits beside defence lawyer Kathryn Nester during a proceeding successful Fourth District Court successful Provo connected Jan. 16, 2026. (Bethany Baker/The Salt Lake Tribune via Pool)

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"This is simply a strategical determination by the defence for respective reasons," said Randolph Rice, a Maryland-based lawyer and ineligible expert who is pursuing the case.

The defence is arguing that sealing portion of the proceeding would forestall the assemblage excavation from being tainted, helium said.

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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."

If convicted, Robinson could perchance look the decease penalty, and it's communal for defence attorneys to rise arsenic galore issues arsenic imaginable nether the circumstances, helium told Fox News Digital.

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Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray appears successful 4th District Court successful Provo during a proceeding for Tyler Robinson, accused successful the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, connected Feb. 3, 2026. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune)

"By requesting limits connected cameras, nationalist access, and the sealing of exhibits, they are attempting to sphere the defendant’s close to a just and impartial proceedings and trim the hazard of appellate issues aboriginal successful the case," helium said.

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To antagonistic the defense's hold tactics, prosecutors had offered to permission DNA grounds retired of the hearing, saying they had capable probable origin without it.

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Graf nevertheless agreed to the defence team's petition for a postponement successful the hearing, which is expected to instrumentality up to 4 days — moving it from the week of May 18 to aboriginal July.

4th District Court Judge Tony Graf speaks during a waiver proceeding for Tyler Robinson, accused of sidesplitting Charlie Kirk, successful Utah County Court successful Provo, Utah, connected Sept. 29, 2025. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via Pool)

Attorneys for a conjugation of media outlets that includes Fox News Digital person opposed the question to adjacent parts of the hearing, noting that specified proceedings are regular and typically unfastened to the nationalist but nether circumstantial circumstances.

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Robinson surrendered astatine his hometown sheriff's bureau 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.