Judge in Kirk Murder Case Refuses to Disqualify Prosecutors

The defendant’s lawyers wanted the entire office dismissed because the deputy attorney general’s daughter had been in the crowd during the shooting.

Tyler Robinson, accused of the murder of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025, appears during a hearing in Utah's Fourth District Court in Provo, Utah, on Dec. 11, 2025. Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, Pool

A judge ruled on Feb. 24 that a Utah deputy attorney general could continue prosecuting the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk.

Defense attorneys for Tyler Robinson, the accused shooter, had asked the judge in January to disqualify that member of the prosecution team—along with his entire office—after it was revealed that his daughter had been in the crowd when Kirk was killed.