A protection legal professional has been appointed to signify Tyler Robinson, who’s charged with taking pictures and killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk throughout an look at a Utah college earlier this month.
Kathryn Nester was chosen to signify Robinson underneath a contract with the Utah County Fee, which appoints attorneys for defendants who can’t afford non-public counsel.
“This motion fulfills the Fee’s constitutional duty to make sure that people accused of against the law—who can’t afford authorized illustration—are supplied with a professional protection,” Utah County officers mentioned in an announcement asserting the appointment.
Tyler Robinson, 22, the suspect within the deadly taking pictures of Charlie Kirk, seems earlier than Decide Tony Graf of the 4th District Court docket by way of a video convention name throughout a listening to on September 16, 2025 on the Fourth Judicial District Courthouse in Provo, Utah.
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Robinson, 22, has been charged with aggravated homicide, felony discharge of a firearm inflicting severe bodily damage, obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering and fee of a violent offense within the presence of a kid, Utah County prosecutors introduced final week, saying they intend to hunt the demise penalty.
Nester, the protection legal professional, beforehand served as the pinnacle of the federal public defender places of work in Salt Lake Metropolis and San Diego for over 10 years, in response to a biography on the webpage of her legislation agency.
Decide Tony Graf of the 4th District Court docket reads the charging paperwork throughout a listening to for Tyler Robinson, the suspect within the deadly taking pictures of Charlie Kirk, on September 16, 2025 on the Fourth Judicial District Courthouse in Provo, Utah.
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Her legislation agency, Nester-Lewis, has represented one other defendant in a high-profile Utah case: Kouri Richins, the Utah mom accused of murdering her husband with a deadly dose of fentanyl, who then wrote and self-published a kids’s e-book on grief following her husband’s demise. Richins, who has pleaded not responsible, has but to go to trial.
Nester’s bio says she has over 30 years of expertise attempting instances in federal and state courtrooms, together with prior capital homicide instances and complicated fraud instances.
Robinson is being held with out bond. His subsequent courtroom look is about for Sept. 29.
