{"id":340484,"date":"2026-02-24T01:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/utah-judge-is-set-to-rule-on-disqualifying-a-prosecutor-in-the-charlie-kirk-case"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:50:11","slug":"utah-judge-is-set-to-rule-on-disqualifying-a-prosecutor-in-the-charlie-kirk-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/utah-judge-is-set-to-rule-on-disqualifying-a-prosecutor-in-the-charlie-kirk-case","title":{"rendered":"Utah decide is ready to rule on disqualifying a prosecutor within the Charlie Kirk case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">PROVO, Utah &#8212; <\/span>A Utah judge is expected to decide Tuesday whether to keep a prosecutor on the murder case against Tyler Robinson, the man charged in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against Robinson, 22, who is charged with aggravated murder in the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/charlie-kirk-conservative-activist-shot-546165a8151104e0938a5e085be1e8bd\">Sept. 10 shooting<\/a> on the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/utah-valley-university-police-charlie-kirk-d7d464c949ec9d4abad0eb3910d6a96b\">Utah Valley University<\/a> campus in Orem. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Robinson has not yet entered a plea and a trial date is not set. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">State District Judge Tony Graf has been weighing several fairness issues including whether to disqualify Utah County Chief Deputy Attorney Chad Grunander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Robinson&#8217;s attorneys argue that Grunander has a conflict of interest because his daughter was in the audience when Kirk was shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">An estimated 3,000 people were at the outdoor rally to hear Kirk when he was shot onstage. A co-founder of Turning Point USA, Kirk <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/charlie-kirk-turning-point-trump-cf2a68e4303c5628299ffe383d09c1e9\">helped mobilize young people<\/a> to vote for President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Grunander\u2019s daughter, whose identity has not been disclosed to news media covering the case, testified in court that she did not record video of the shooting or the aftermath. She was looking at the crowd and did not learn until after she ran to safety that Kirk had been the person who was shot, she told the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The judge has meanwhile prevented full <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/charlie-kirk-biased-jurors-robinson-video-40d48c3427590c45c8b5e67517a117ef\">video recordings of Kirk&#8217;s shooting<\/a> from being shown in court after defense attorneys objected out of concern that the footage would undermine Robinson\u2019s right to a fair trial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Defense attorneys also seek to keep TV cameras and photographers out of the courtroom, arguing that \u201chighly biased\u201d news outlets risk tainting the case. Prosecutors, attorneys for news organizations and Kirk\u2019s widow have urged Graf to keep the proceedings open.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/utah-judge-set-rule-disqualifying-prosecutor-charlie-kirk-130434752\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVO, Utah &#8212; A Utah judge is expected to decide Tuesday whether to keep a prosecutor on the murder case against Tyler Robinson, the man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18369,9460,6745,10720,609,841,18368,13939,7316,641,13941],"class_list":["post-340484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chad-grunander","tag-chief-deputy","tag-county-chief","tag-information-media","tag-president","tag-prosecutor","tag-provo","tag-tony-graf","tag-turning-level-usa","tag-utah","tag-utah-valley-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340486,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340484\/revisions\/340486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}