‘Devastating’ Evidence Against Charlie Kirk Murder Suspect Laid out in Court
By Reuters. “Devastating” evidence, including DNA on a rifle and a text confession, shows a 23-year-old should be tried for murdering Charlie Kirk last year, prosecutors told a court this week, as the defence team tried to poke holes in the case.
The preliminary hearings gave prosecutors a chance to outline probable cause to try Tyler Robinson, 23, on charges including aggravated murder, a death penalty offence in Utah.
They painted a vivid picture of his movements in the 48 hours surrounding the murder of Kirk – using CCTV, witness testimony, a taped interview with Robinson’s roommate and messages between the pair.
The defence for Robinson, who has not yet entered a plea, sought to sow doubt on all of it. . .
For the past five days, lawyers for Robinson, a trainee electrician, raised repeated objections to evidence and testimony on arguments including hearsay and the tainting of potential jurors. (Read more from “‘Devastating’ Evidence Against Charlie Kirk Murder Suspect Laid out in Court” HERE)
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Charlie Kirk’s widow views video she requested of husband’s alleged killer
By Reuters. Erika Kirk was allowed on Friday to watch surveillance video, as she had requested, that prosecutors say shows the Utah man accused of killing her husband, right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.
While the proceedings of the five-day hearing, on whether Tyler Robinson should stand trial in the case, have mostly been livestreamed in accordance with Erika Kirk’s call for transparency, the video compilation of recordings by campus surveillance cameras was shown only to those present in the courtroom.
Reuters was not in the courtroom and was unable to view the video, which prosecutors said shows Robinson in several different areas of Utah Valley University on September 10, the day Charlie Kirk was killed on the campus.
The Associated Press reported that Erika Kirk watched intently as the video showed a person running across the roof of the campus building from which investigators say Kirk was shot. When the figure was shown dropping to a crawl near the roof’s edge, AP reported that Erika Kirk turned and embraced Kirk’s crying mother and the two looked away until the video was almost over.
As Charlie Kirk’s legal representative under state law, Erika Kirk has called for all evidence presented at the hearing to be made public via a livestream, or otherwise shown to herself and others present in the courtroom. (Read more from “Charlie Kirk’s widow views video she requested of husband’s alleged killer” HERE)
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