Lawyer for suspect in Kirk killing wants more time to review evidence

Amount of grounds successful Charlie Kirk execution lawsuit is ‘voluminous’, some prosecutors and defence agree.

An lawyer for a 22-year-old man charged successful the United States with sidesplitting right-wing activistic Charlie Kirk has asked a justice for much clip to reappraisal the ample magnitude of grounds successful the lawsuit earlier deciding if the defence would question a preliminary hearing.

“It’s my knowing determination is going to beryllium monolithic amounts of integer [evidence] that is going to beryllium coming,” Kathryn Nester, a lawyer for Tyler Robinson, told the tribunal connected Monday.

A preliminary proceeding would find if determination is capable grounds against Robinson to spell guardant with a trial. Prosecutors successful the US authorities of Utah person charged Robinson with aggravated execution and program to question the decease penalty.

The proceeding took spot successful Provo, conscionable a fewer miles from the Utah Valley University field successful Orem, wherever galore students are inactive processing trauma from the September 10 shooting and the day-and-a-half search for the suspect.

Authorities arrested Robinson erstwhile helium showed up with his parents astatine his hometown sheriff’s bureau successful southwest Utah, much than a three-hour thrust from the tract of the shooting, to crook himself in. Prosecutors person since revealed incriminating substance messages and DNA grounds that they said link Robinson to the killing.

A enactment that Robinson near for his romanticist spouse earlier the shooting said helium had the accidental to termination 1 of the nation’s starring blimpish voices “and I’m going to instrumentality it,” Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray told reporters earlier the archetypal hearing. Gray besides said Robinson wrote successful a substance astir Kirk to his partner: “I had capable of his hatred.”

The assassination of Kirk, a adjacent state of President Donald Trump who worked to steer young voters towards conservatism, has galvanised galore Republicans who person promised to transportation connected Kirk’s ngo of moving American authorities further right.

Trump has declared Kirk a “martyr” for state and threatened to ace down connected what helium called the “radical left”.

Workers crossed the US person been punished oregon fired for speaking retired astir Kirk aft his death, including teachers, nationalist and backstage employees, and media personalities – astir notably Jimmy Kimmel, whose late-night amusement was suspended past reinstated by the ABC network.

Kirk’s governmental organisation, Arizona-based Turning Point USA, brought young evangelical Christians into authorities done his podcast, societal media and field events. Many salient Republicans are filling successful astatine the upcoming field events Kirk planned to attend, including Utah Governor Spencer Cox and Senator Mike Lee astatine Utah State University connected Tuesday.

At Monday’s hearing, Judge Tony Graf concisely acknowledged that the lawsuit is apt to gully wide attraction and took pains to accent that “Mr Robinson’s law rights volition beryllium protected astatine each stage” arsenic good arsenic those of the victims.

“We indispensable fulfil our roles with integrity, civility and diligence,” helium told some sides. “I promote each of you to springiness your precise champion to this case. Neither Mr Robinson oregon the radical of Utah merit thing little than the just and impartial medication of justice.”

Graf acceptable the adjacent proceeding for October 30.