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Judge Rules Tyler Robinson Will Face Trial For Assassination Of Charlie Kirk

A legal expert said that this is one of the slowest preliminary hearing schedules he has ever seen and speculated that the trial may not happen until next year and could even bleed into 2028.

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A Utah judge ruled Tuesday evening that Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, will stand trial for aggravated murder, meaning the state can seek the death penalty.

Coming up on one year after Kirk was assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025, Judge Tony Graf ruled that state prosecutors submitted enough evidence to meet the probable cause threshold necessary to bind the case over for trial. The threshold included not just evidence that Robinson committed the murder, but that the murder was aggravated and could have caused the deaths of others around Kirk.

In his order read from the bench, Graf reviewed in detail all the evidence presented at the preliminary hearing, which included video evidence, forensic DNA evidence, and Robinson’s own alleged admissions over text and in online chatrooms.

“Viewed in the light most favorable to the prosecution, this evidence is sufficient at this stage to support a reasonable belief that defendant is the individual who shot and killed Charlie Kirk,” Graf stated.

As per the aggravating factor, making this a death penalty case, he added, “The state need not establish at this stage that the defendant calculated a particular ballistic probability. It must, however, present evidence permitting a reasonable inference, both that another person was exposed to the statutorily required degree of risk, and that the defendant was aware of the circumstances giving rise to that risk. The evidence described above is sufficient.”

“The court’s determination does not rest on crowd size alone, or an assumption, assumed probability of wind ricochet, over penetration, or bullet deflection,” he continued. “It rests on the evidence concerning the location and manner of the shot, the documented position of several individuals in and around the canopy area, defendant’s opportunity to observe those circumstances, and the preliminary hearing requirement that reasonable inferences be drawn in the state’s favor. Whether the state can prove the aggravating circumstance beyond a reasonable doubt remains for trial. Count one is bound over for trial.”

KIRK Family statement after decision to go to trial:Today’s decision, which comes nearly a year since........

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