Robinson’s Defense: We Need Six Months to Read All the Evidence Against Our Client

Prosecutor Ryan McBride laid out a massive “mountain of proof” against the suspected assassin, arguing that a six-month delay requested by the defense is unnecessary because the state’s evidence already far exceeds the legal bar for trial…

[Defense attorney Richard] Novak characterized the state’s production as “gigantic and voluminous,” telling the court that his lawyers haven’t finished reading the thousands of pages of discovery already sitting on their desks…

Following a short break, defense attorney Staci Visser told Graf that they need “at least four months to finish processing” the evidence that they’ve been given…

Robinson’s lead defense attorney argued that she needs additional time, revealing that they have not yet seen the gun used to kill Kirk on September 10, 2025, and they have not been able to get into Robinson’s phone.

It has been seven months since Charlie Kirk was killed. Tyler Robinson turned himself in the next day after his parents recognized him in the images released by police. But someone the defense needs another 4-6 months to catch up on their reading.

The other big decision being considered by the judge today is whether or not to open the courtroom to cameras during the trial. The defense wants the cameras out and Erika Kirk and the prosecution want them in. In order to make their case, Robinson’s defense called an expert witness today who had also previously testified during the Kohberger case.

California-based trial consultant Bryan Edelman, who has a Ph.D. in social psychology, conducted a telephone survey for the defense and reported his findings on March 13.

“It is Dr. Edelman’s opinion that the modern internet and social media ecosystem — especially algorithmic curation and personalization — has fundamentally altered how news is consumed and makes local, high-profile publicity substantially harder to avoid for residents of the locality where the events giving rise to the case occurred and the case is being tried,” Robinson’s attorneys wrote in a filing last week…

Robinson’s lawyers, Kathryn Nester, Michael Burt, Richard Novak and Staci Visser, also argued that pretrial publicity impacts the jury pool and can increase the likelihood of guilty verdicts. Judges are often tasked with balancing the public’s right to access court proceedings and a defendant’s right to a fair trial.