Tyler Robinson judge set to rule on whether prosecution team should be disqualified in Charlie Kirk case

The presiding justice successful the lawsuit against Tyler Robinson, accused of assassinating blimpish icon Charlie Kirk past September, volition regularisation connected a captious defence question today. 

Judge Tony Graf volition determine successful a WebEx proceeding scheduled for 10:30 a.m. section clip this greeting whether to disqualify authorities prosecutors implicit an alleged struggle of interest. He is expected to contented an oral ruling followed by a written determination connected whether region prosecutors should beryllium disqualified, which could alteration the people of the proceedings significantly. 

Robinson is expected to perceive to the proceeding from jail. 

Robinson's defence squad has asserted that the authorities has a struggle of involvement since 1 of the prosecutors' children was contiguous astatine the Sept. 10 lawsuit astatine Utah Valley University wherever Kirk was killed.

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

There person been 2 anterior hearings connected the matter. 

On Feb. 3, defence lawyer Richard Novak questioned Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray successful bid to pinpoint erstwhile the prosecution determined it would prosecute the decease punishment against Robinson, which was publically announced soon aft his arrest. 

The tribunal past heard grounds from an unnamed elder prosecutor, identified lone arsenic "Prosecutor A," who described the office’s interior handling of the lawsuit and the determination to disclose the child’s beingness to the defense.

The authoritative testified determination was nary recollection of a circumstantial speech with Gray astir however to proceed due to the fact that of the child’s presence, but acknowledged it was regular for Gray to consult elder prosecutors successful decease punishment cases.

Charlie Kirk speaks earlier helium is assassinated during Turning Point's sojourn to Utah Valley University successful Orem, Utah, connected September 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)

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The authoritative testified Gray expressed aboriginal connected that helium intended to question the decease punishment and wanted that determination announced astatine the aforesaid clip charges were filed — earlier than is typical, erstwhile specified notices often travel aft a preliminary hearing.

Meanwhile, the state's presumption remains that determination is nary struggle of involvement with the authoritative whose kid witnessed the shooting, but adjacent if determination was, it wouldn't impact the full prosecutorial team. The authorities argued successful erstwhile filings that thousands of different radical witnessed the shooting, and that the kid successful question did not person a nonstop enactment of show to the shooter. 

Attendees clasp up posters of Charlie Kirk during a Turning Point USA lawsuit astatine Northrop Auditorium connected the University of Minnesota field connected Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, successful Minneapolis, Minn.  (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

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To that point, the authorities called Utah State Bureau of Investigation Agent Dave Hall, a pb researcher successful the case, to attest successful the Feb. 3 hearing. He said that nary of the much than 40 eyewitness statements taken from those who witnessed Kirk's sidesplitting identified the shooter. 

Graf has said that helium is accepting the defense's alleged facts arsenic existent for the intent of this motion. 

Fox News' Stepheny Price, Adriana James-Rodl, Julia Bonavita and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report. 

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