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Accused Charlie Kirk murderer Tyler Robinson filed a Sunday courtroom movement to bar all nonetheless cameras, video cameras and microphones from a important listening to on April 17.
On that day, Robinson is scheduled to be current in courtroom, and the state and protection are anticipated to make a flurry of motions.
Decide Tony Graf has not made a ruling on whether or not to ban digital media all through the course of the trial.
Tyler Robinson, accused within the deadly capturing of Charlie Kirk, seems throughout a listening to in 4th District Court docket in Provo on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune)
Fox Information Authorized Analyst Donna Rotunno, and host of the podcast “Crime & Justice with Donna Rotunno,” stated Graf ought to “take management” and make a definitive ruling on media within the courtroom all through the remainder of the proceedings.
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She stated the protection asking solely to ban digital media for the April 17 listening to could possibly be indicative of a bigger technique, and that they might ask to bar media on a hearing-by-hearing foundation. That manner, if Graf guidelines in opposition to them, they’ll solely lose the movement for one particular listening to, and never for all the proceedings shifting ahead.
Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, has pleaded for cameras to be allowed in the course of the trial.
Tyler Robinson, left, accused within the deadly capturing of Charlie Kirk, sits beside protection lawyer Kathryn Nester throughout a listening to in Fourth District Court docket in Provo on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026. (Bethany Baker/The Salt Lake Tribune)
“There have been cameras throughout my husband when he was murdered,” she advised Fox Information’ Jesse Watters in an unique interview in November. “There have been cameras throughout my family and friends mourning. There have been cameras throughout me, analyzing my each transfer, analyzing my each smile, my each tear. We need to have cameras in there.”
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“Why not be clear?” Kirk continued. “There’s nothing to cover. I do know there’s not as a result of I’ve seen what the case is constructed on.”
Prosecutors additionally filed a response to a movement filed by Robinson’s workforce final week, asking the courtroom a Could 18 preliminary listening to again. The protection is asking to push again the preliminary listening to till skilled discovery is full, and prosecutors argue that the listening to needs to be held on the scheduled date.
Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow, speaks on the public memorial service for right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on September 21, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP)
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The state argues that the protection is attempting to confer upon itself rights in the course of the preliminary stage of the trial that it isn’t entitled to till the precise trial itself, and that discovery is supposed to be reserved for the trial, not preliminary proceedings.
Rotunno agrees that the protection has been given sufficient discovery leeway within the preliminary stage of the courtroom proceedings, and that the listening to ought to stay scheduled for Could 18.
