Wheels come off Charlie Kirk murder case as bullet fails to match
This is gonna be a wild ride.
If the bullet doesn’t match, you can’t convict, but prosecutors in the Charlie Kirk murder case are still pushing for the death penalty even as federal analysts fail to conclusively tie the fatal round to the alleged weapon.
Robinson’s lawyers wrote in the recent court filing to District Judge Tony Graf in Utah that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr. Robinson.” They added that the FBI is conducting a second comparative bullet analysis and a lead bullet analysis, but neither has been completed.
“Again, until the defense receives the case files and protocols relating to these analyses, and has had them independently evaluated by its expert, they will not be in a position to assess the reliability of this evidence if either the State or the defense decides to proffer it,” the defense team added.
It said that based on what the final reports show, “the defense may very well decide to offer the testimony of the ATF firearm analyst as exculpatory evidence.”
So, the forensics don’t line up, and there is a really odd story in the alleged texts not written in the voice of anyone remotely supposed to be Robinson’s age, about grandpa’s rifle, which is now allegedly not used in the murder but is key to “the confession.” This is gonna be a wild ride.