Overview
- On Friday, Tyler Robinson asked a Utah judge to bar cameras from future hearings, saying livestreams fuel biased coverage that could taint jurors.
- Media organizations and Erika Kirk urged the court to keep cameras in place to ensure transparency and fight misinformation about the case.
- Judge Tony Graf took the request under advisement and also heard a defense bid to delay the mid-May preliminary hearing, while prosecutors said they already have ample probable-cause evidence, including DNA consistent with Robinson on the rifle, a towel, and several cartridges.
- The court filing unsealed Thursday detailed that the autopsy bullet fragment was .30-caliber but too damaged for a conclusive match to the recovered Mauser rifle, while a spent .30-06 casing was identified as fired from that weapon.
- The defense is also seeking to limit further FBI testing of the sole bullet fragment because the lab will not allow a defense examiner to observe or permit video recording of its procedures.