They're going to try to get this overturned on a technicality, aren't they?
CBS News is reporting that Tyler Robinson's lawyers are asking for the judge to disqualify the prosecutors in the case.
An 18-year-old child of a deputy county attorney attended the campus event where Kirk was shot. The child, whose name was redacted from court filings, later texted with their father in the Utah County Attorney's Office to describe the chaotic events around the shooting, the filings from prosecutors and defense lawyers state.
Translation: "Your kid witnessed a man get murdered in front of the entire world, so I don't want you to try to prove I'm guilty."
Defense attorneys say that personal relationship is a conflict of interest that 'raises serious concerns about past and future prosecutorial decision-making in this case,' according to court documents. They also argue that the 'rush' to seek the death penalty against Robinson is evidence of 'strong emotional reactions' by the prosecution and merits the disqualification of the entire team.
So ... we're supposed to believe that prosecutors would not have sought the death penalty in the most high profile American political assassination of this century if this one attorney's kid wasn't there??
Here are the texts that Robinson's attorney argue should result in the prosecuting attorney being dismissed.
'While the second person in line was speaking with Charlie, I was looking around the crowd when I heard a loud sound, like a pop. Someone yelled "he's been shot,"' the child stated in the affidavit.
The child later texted a family group chat to say 'CHARLIE GOT SHOT.' In the aftermath of the shooting, the child did not miss classes or other activities and reported no lasting trauma 'aside from being scared at the time,' the affidavit said.
The attorney general of Utah called B.S. 👇
So did pretty much everyone else:
Fortunately, the judge was skeptical of the claim when the case resumed on Friday.
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