Tyler Robinson doesn't want video of Charlie Kirk's murder introduced as evidence

Lawyers for Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused assassin of Turning Point USA laminitis Charlie Kirk, person asked a Utah justice to artifact video of the execution from being introduced arsenic grounds astatine a proceeding scheduled for Feb. 3.

Kirk, a 31-year-old begetter of two, suffered a fatal gunshot coiled to the cervix astatine Utah Valley University successful September, erstwhile helium was participating successful a nationalist speaking lawsuit sponsored by the field section of Turning Point.

In a memorandum filed Tuesday, Robinson's attorneys claimed the video is irrelevant to their question to person the region prosecutor's bureau disqualified from handling the lawsuit and would interruption his close to a just trial.

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

Robinson's lawyers person accused the Utah County Attorney's Office of having a struggle of involvement due to the fact that the big kid of a lawman authoritative was contiguous during the assassination. Prosecutors person denied a struggle and said they bash not request oregon program to trust connected the big kid arsenic a witness.

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Several videos of Kirk's execution circulated wide online minutes aft the shooting. It was not instantly wide from tribunal filings if the video prosecutors planned to present arsenic grounds has been publically seen before.

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

The defence described it arsenic a colour video taken "only a fewer feet distant from Mr. Kirk." It includes audio "including unidentified voices, instantly before, during and aft the shooting."

Read the filing:

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"This is simply a coagulated argument," said Donna Rotunno, a Chicago-based transgression defence lawyer and Fox News contributor.

Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk is seen onstage astatine the Fiserv Forum during preparations for the Republican National Convention connected July 14, 2024, successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

She said prosecutors don't request to really play the clip to exemplify that they don't request to trust connected the big child's grounds oregon to reason that they don't person a conflict.

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"The video should not beryllium played if it isn’t needed to beryllium immoderate worldly issues successful the hearing," she said. "I bash not spot however it is needed to find if the prosecution should beryllium disqualified."

Skye Lazaro, a Salt Lake City-based transgression defence lawyer who is not connected to the case, said she wouldn't privation the video played either. However, she said, it's unclear however the justice volition rule.

"I'm not definite they're going to beryllium palmy there," she told Fox News Digital. 

UVU students intermission to bespeak arsenic they regard implicit the spot wherever Charlie Kirk was assassinated, Orem, Utah, Wednesday, September 17, 2025. (Matthew Finn/Fox News)

Also successful the filing, the defence claimed quality sum of the lawsuit has been "highly biased" and told the tribunal they planned to inquire to person cameras kicked retired erstwhile again astatine the commencement of the adjacent hearing. They wrote that if the video of Kirk's execution is played successful court, it would beryllium "subject to contiguous work nationwide and internationally."

Many outlets, including Fox News Digital, person avoided republishing wide circulated video of the slaying owed to its highly graphic nature.

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Robinson faces 7 charges, including aggravated murder, which carries the imaginable decease penalty.

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An approximation of the suspected movements of Tyler Robinson, Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin, based connected tribunal documents, video from the country and conversations with instrumentality enforcement. (Google Maps, Fox News Digital)

He has not yet entered a plea.

He is owed backmost successful tribunal Tuesday for the 2nd time of a proceeding connected his defence team's question to person prosecutors kicked disconnected the case.

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Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray volition instrumentality to the witnesser stand.

Also expected to attest are a lawman authoritative successful his office, the prosecutor's big kid and a authorities investigator.