A renowned Utah lawyer says that the evidence against Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old from Utah who is suspected of killing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, may have some serious problems. Skye Lazaro, a well-known lawyer with the Ray Quinney & Nebeker firm in Salt Lake City, told Fox News that he didn’t believe the official timeline or the evidence surrounding the assassination of the 31-year-old conservative broadcaster.
On September 10, Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while at an event at Utah Valley University. Robinson was apprehended, and the tragic, high-profile event has put a lot of pressure on prosecutors to ask for the death penalty for the accused.
Lawyer Points Out Flaws in the Official Timeline
Lazaro asked specific questions regarding what happened right after the murder, especially Robinson’s supposed meeting with a police officer at the crime scene perimeter.
Officials say that Robinson allegedly went back to the crime scene hours after the assassination and “made contact” with an officer. He then reportedly ran around 250 miles south to his house in St. George, where he stayed hidden for two days until being caught.
The specific location of this meeting is an important piece of information that the authorities have not made public. Lazaro said that if the timeline of the meeting “doesn’t line up in a way that makes sense,” it might be terrible for the prosecution.
Bodycam and cell phone records could be very important.
Lazaro said that the defense team might take advantage of flaws in the inquiry, including as the possibility that a bodycam tape was missing. Robinson is said to have told the police that he wanted to get something from the parking lot, which is where the firearm was later located.
The lawyer said, “A lot of the time, when you get cellphone records through a subpoena, you can see where messages were sent from.” Lazaro said that messages, like the one Robinson and his roommate Lance Twiggs are said to have sent, might hurt the defense more and more if they are shown to be incriminating. On the other hand, she thinks these signals “could come out that those aren’t as bad as they sound.”
Lazaro said that the defense will probably spend a lot of time going over all the digital evidence to put together a complete timetable. She also warned against trusting what the government said at first: “You have to remember that when the government writes a probable cause affidavit, it’s their best hits at the time.”
The expert also said that the defense shouldn’t depend on the huge amount of conjecture about the case online, because it would be very hard to establish those accusations in court.