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On Tuesday, Tyler Robinson was back in the Utah court of Judge Tony Graf, where his attorneys worked hard to disqualify the entire Utah County prosecutors' office because the adult daughter of one of the attorneys on the team was in attendance at Utah Valley University on the day Charlie Kirk was shot and killed. Their argument is that the prosecutor, whose daughter was among 3,000 people in attendance at Kirk's college talk that day, is therefore biased against suspect Robinson.
The argument doesn't hold—though Judge Graf won't deliver his ruling until February 24—but the mission of this defense team is to delay the trial as long as possible and to sow as much doubt in the public as to the nature of the killing that it will be difficult for a jury to rule entirely against Robinson, which could be a literal death sentence. The evidence points to Robinson, and that was revealed on the stand yesterday when one of the lead investigators, agent Dave Hall, took the stand.
He was asked if DNA evidence was collected, and Hall said, "The evidence that was obtained did provide us with DNA evidence in relation to items used during the commission of the crime, and then they were compared to Mr. Robinson." Hall said that these included "specifically, a screwdriver that was recovered on the rooftop of one of the buildings, and a firearm that was recovered in a tree area on campus."
Once a search warrant was conducted on Robinson's home, further evidence was found. Hall said "there were some bullet casings that had some inscriptions on them. There were some tools that were believed to have been used to make those inscriptions, there were targets, I believe, that had been used, and also targets had been purchased recently or just prior to the event. There was ring doorbell camera footage obtained from other residences down there, and then a number of electrical items, laptops and such that were collected as part of the warrant."
Hall was questioned about the inscriptions on the shell casings that were found in the apartment, and he said they were "relevant because the shell casings recovered with the firearm also had inscriptions on them." He said further that the DNA on the firearm was consistent with that of Robinson.
Kathryn Nester, defense attorney for Robinson, addressed Hall in a cross-examination. She revisited the concept of DNA evidence, asking Hall "Are you aware that DNA, the DNA evidence that was seized from the scene consisted of a mixture of at least five individuals?"
Hall mentioned that he's not a DNA expert, but Nester pressed him on the issue of the five individuals' DNA. She accused Hall of "helping" the prosecutors, saying "so you know enough to say what helps him, but you're not going to answer whether or not there were five individuals mixed into that DNA." Nester was not clear as to what DNA she was talking about or where it had been collected or from what objects.
Robinson still has not entered a plea as he has still not been arraigned. That is not expected to happen yet for several months. The defense appears to be interested in making this case as convoluted as possible in order to engender doubt about their client.
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