Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk demands speedy trial, alleging 'undue delay' from Tyler Robinson defense

Erika Kirk is seeking a speedy proceedings successful effect to perceived hold tactics from the ineligible squad representing her husband's accused assassin, Tyler Robinson.

In a tribunal filing made nationalist implicit the weekend, her attorney, Jeffrey Neiman, notified the tribunal that she is invoking her rights to a speedy proceedings arsenic a unfortunate nether Utah law.

"The Utah Code affords victims of a transgression ‘the close to a speedy disposition of the charges escaped from unwarranted hold caused by oregon astatine the behest of the defendant,’" Neiman wrote successful a tribunal filing. 

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Erika Kirk speaks onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 astatine Jazz astatine Lincoln Center connected Dec. 3, 2025, successful New York City.  (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York Times)

"This Court is tasked with the critically important relation of ensuring the Defendant has a just trial, but this Court indispensable besides bash truthful portion balancing Mrs. Kirk’s close to a speedy proceedings and truthful this Notice invokes Mrs. Kirk’s rights nether applicable Utah Code."

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Robinson is accused of shooting Charlie Kirk during a Turning Point USA lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University successful September. 

Kirk, who founded the organization, was sitting nether a structure successful the field courtyard, speaking with assemblage members, erstwhile a sniper's slug struck him successful the neck, sending thousands of radical moving for cover.

While prosecutors said Friday they'd completed astir 90% of the find process, Robinson hasn't entered a plea yet oregon faced a preliminary proceeding — a important aboriginal measurement successful Utah's ineligible process wherever prosecutors person to person the justice they person probable origin to bring charges.

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Tyler Robinson, accused of the execution of Charlie Kirk, appears during a proceeding successful Fourth District Court successful Provo, Utah connected Dec. 11, 2025. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via Pool)

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Even so, the filing whitethorn beryllium premature, according to Donna Rotunno, a Chicago-based defence lawyer and Fox News contributor.

"I don’t truly deliberation this applies, but it is simply a precise bully strategical determination to enactment the justice connected announcement that everyone is watching," she told Fox News Digital Monday.

Utah is 1 of a fewer states that has specified a provision, though the Constitution gives defendants their ain close to a speedy proceedings — thing that tin beryllium waived successful large cases requiring ample amounts of ineligible probe and maneuvering successful court.

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Conservative activistic Charlie Kirk is pictured with his woman Erika Kirk connected signifier astatine an lawsuit earlier this twelvemonth successful Phoenix. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

"Nobody believed successful the value of the United States Constitution much than Charlie Kirk," Neiman wrote. "And though the United States Constitution guarantees transgression defendants galore rights, it does not warrant them the close to origin undue hold successful the transgression justness process."

Robinson is owed backmost successful tribunal connected Feb. 3 for the 2nd time of a proceeding connected his defence team's question to footwear the section authoritative disconnected the case. Many ineligible analysts, including Rotunno, person called it "frivolous."

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Prosecutors person denied an alleged struggle of involvement implicit the information that a lawman successful the region attorney's bureau had an big kid who was successful the assemblage erstwhile Kirk was murdered.