Posted on 06/26/2026 10:04:24 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Charlie Kirk's accused assassin, Tyler Robinson, can still face the potential death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder, a Utah judge ruled Friday.
Judge Tony Graf Jr. found Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard was in contempt of a court order for statements he made about his opinion on the strength of evidence in the case — but he was not wrong for making other statements in which he disputed a misleading characterization about specific ballistic evidence from a defense court filing.
As a result, Graf denied Robinson's argument that the appropriate remedy would be to remove the potential death penalty — and instead he said he would expand the jury selection process to ensure a fair trial.
"The court finds that striking the death penalty is grossly disproportionate to the misconduct and legally unavailable in this civil contempt framework," Graf said in court.
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Don’t “furries” get special consideration in capital murder cases?
Since the defense is going straight to the penalty considerations, it sounds like they know they have a losing case.
Good.
“Here, fascist, catch!”
IIRC he admitted what he did in texts to his boyfriend.
Kinda hard to overcome that if you ask me.
For all the effort being devoted to saying the death penalty doesn’t have an effect on crime (the debate is happening in Japan too), the evil-doers seem to be allergic to it.
They’d rather spend their life in a 5X5 concrete cell, than be thrown into the Great Unknown.
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