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Utah prosecutors are accusing Tyler Robinson’s<\/a> defense team of misleading the public in court filings before attempting to have authorities sanctioned for trying to “set the record straight.”<\/p>\n

In an ironic twist, prosecutors also noted the defense’s claim had gone viral after being picked up in the media.<\/p>\n

Robinson’s lawyers have previously complained coverage of the case put his right to a fair trial at risk and have a pending motion to have<\/a> news cameras barred from future court proceedings.<\/p>\n

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Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard’s motion came in response to a defense push to have prosecutors sanctioned for speaking<\/a> on the issue outside of the courtroom.<\/p>\n

He argued that prosecutors have done nothing wrong because while court rules, like Utah Rule of Professional Conduct 3.6(c), and a gag order limit what can be said about the case, they allow attorneys on both sides to “set the record straight.”<\/p>\n

Read the <\/strong>filing<\/strong><\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robinson’s defense lawyers, in a<\/a> court filing, asserted that “the ATF was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr. Robinson.”<\/p>\n

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The claim, which Ballard described as misleading and “misstated,” generated millions of views from just one report \u2014 and inspired additional coverage in local and national media, the prosecutor wrote.<\/p>\n

It also fanned the flames of unverified claims that other people could have been responsible for Kirk’s murder.<\/p>\n

But the defense left out a crucial piece of context, according to Ballard.<\/p>\n

“The ATF was unable to identify or exclude<\/em> the bullet as having been fired from the rifle,” he wrote, emphasizing the missing information in italics.<\/p>\n

“Defendant reinforced this misleading inference by following it up with, ‘the defense may very well decide to offer the testimony of the ATF firearm analyst as exculpatory evidence,'” he added.<\/p>\n

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In response, members of the prosecution team attempted to provide more context in public interviews, explaining the ATF’s conclusions while noting the defendant was innocent until proven guilty, Ballard wrote.<\/p>\n

Judge Tony Graf Jr. eventually unsealed the ATF report<\/a> in order to give the public direct access to the source material.<\/p>\n

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Ballard asked the judge to deny the defense motion and their request<\/a> to have prosecutors turn over internal communications, which he argued are privileged work products.<\/p>\n

If the prosecution’s public statements are the issue, the defense already has them, he noted.<\/p>\n

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An appendix to the ATF report explained that “inconclusive” findings mean that it was “an examiner’s opinion that there is an insufficient quality and\/or quantity of individual characteristics to identify or exclude.”<\/p>\n

Experts have told Fox News Digital that it’s not unusual for a bullet to disintegrate on impact, making ballistic identification unlikely.<\/p>\n

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However, prosecutors have recovered a spent casing that is both consistent with the bullet and the alleged murder weapon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shortly before Kirk’s assassination, Robinson allegedly climbed to a rooftop<\/a> across the courtyard from where Kirk was speaking and fired a single shot from his grandfather’s Mauser rifle.<\/p>\n

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Gruesome video shows the bullet struck Kirk in the neck in front of a crowd of roughly 3,000 people. He died from the injury.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have said campus police found marks left behind on the gravel rooftop moments after the shooting “consistent with a sniper having lain [there] \u2014 impressions in the gravel potentially left by the elbows, knees and feet of a person in a prone shooting position.”<\/p>\n

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Police recovered the rifle wrapped in<\/a> a blanket in a patch of woods near campus. And prosecutors have said that text messages between Robinson and his romantic partner, Lance Twiggs, allegedly discuss wanting to retrieve the rifle.<\/p>\n

“Stuck in Orem for a little while longer yet,” Robinson allegedly wrote in the hours after the murder. “Shouldn’t be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still.”<\/p>\n

Twiggs is cooperating with investigators and has not been charged with a crime.<\/p>\n

Robinson could face the death penalty<\/a> if convicted of the top charge against him, aggravated murder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/tyler-robinson-prosecutors-say-defense-fueled-viral-misinformation-charlie-kirk-assassination-case <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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