Accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson will still face the death penalty — despite a judge on Friday ruling that prosecutors violated a gag order and threw the case into chaos.
Utah Judge Tony Graf found prosecutor Christopher Ballard in civil contempt for chatting to media outlets about Robinson’s case — but refused to take the death penalty off the table, as the defense requested.
Robinson’s team claimed that prosecutors needed to be sanctioned after they responded to a misleading defense filing suggesting the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives determined the bullet in the gun Robinson allegedly used to shoot the conservative podcaster didn’t match the round found in Kirk’s body.
Those court papers by Robinson’s lawyers sparked online conspiracy theories about how the conservative activist died.
