Tyler Robinson was arrested for allegedly murdering MAGA firebrand Charlie Kirk within days after the tragic incident. However, the prosecution is still gathering the evidence and trying to frame a timeline of how the events transpired. A Utah defence lawyer has now pointed out that the prosecution's timeline could be one of the biggest weak points in the case.
"If it (the timeline) doesn't line up in a way that makes sense, it could definitely be bad for them," Skye Lazaro, who works for the law firm, Ray Quinney & Nebeker, in Salt Lake City, told Fox News Digital. "There's just so much we don't know yet as this case develops."
NEW: Surveillance video shows Tyler Robinson at a Utah gas station during the manhunt for Charlie Kirk’s murderer.
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The video, obtained by Fox News Digital, shows Robinson at 7:15 a.m. on September 11 in Cedar City, Utah, paying for gas with a credit card and fueling his car. pic.twitter.com/qv3nU0ngHH
The prosecutors were given a five-day deadline on Monday to make their preliminary disclosures while the defence has pushed back Tyler's waiver hearing by a month. The text messages sent by Tyler to his transgender lover, Lance Twiggs, has already been made public but without timestamps.
"A lot of times what you can get when you subpoena cellphone records are where messages were sent from," Lazaro said. The prosecution will have to prove that the Tyler sent the texts from his phone in Orem to Twiggs's phone in St George, to back their claims.
"The defence is going to want to get, going to wanna see, and probably spend a lot of time, whether they get their own forensic expert to analyse it or do it themselves, to really piece together a timeline," she added. "It could come out that those aren't as damaging as they sound," Lazaro said. "You have to keep in mind, when the government writes a probable cause affidavit, it's their greatest hits that they have in the moment."
Citing conspiracy theories claiming that someone else wrote the text messages sent from Tyler's phone, Lazaro said that unless it can be proven, it is not the "greatest defence" and the defence could lose credibility.
With the charging documents lacking anything exculpatory, the defence would seek those items in discovery or through witness testimony during a preliminary hearing, she added.
Tyler has not entered a plea and the Justice Department is yet to announce any federal charges. Lazaro feels that preliminary hearings could take months as serious felonies generally could be delayed by up to a year in Utah. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for October 30.
