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Charlie Kirk Shooting Prosecutor’s Office Won’t Be Disqualified
Charlie Kirk
Photographer: Benjamin Hanson/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Utah County Attorney’s Office can continue to pursue its aggravated murder case against the 22-year-old man accused of killing conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, a judge in Utah ruled.
The judge on Tuesday rejected a bid by lawyers for Tyler James Robinson to disqualify the prosecutors due to an alleged conflict of interest. The 18-year-old daughter of one of the lawyers on the case was present at the college campus event where Kirk was fatally shot.