Legal Scholar John Yoo Says Charlie Kirk Assassin Has ‘No Chance of Winning’
“I think the defense is just trying to delay the trial.”
John Yoo, the UC-Berkeley law professor who worked in the Department of Justice under President George W. Bush, appeared on FOX News this weekend to offer legal analysis on the strategy of Tyler Robinson’s defense team.
Robinson’s lawyers are trying to disqualify the entire prosecution team.
The Associated Press has details:
Defendant in Charlie Kirk’s killing asks judge to disqualify prosecutors
The Utah man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk returned to court Friday, as his attorneys sought to disqualify prosecutors because the daughter of a deputy county attorney involved in the case attended the rally where Kirk was shot.
Defense attorneys say the relationship represents a conflict of interest after prosecutors said they intend to seek the death penalty for Tyler Robinson.
Robinson, 22, is charged with aggravated murder in the Sept. 10 shooting of Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, just a few miles north of the Provo courthouse. He has not yet entered a plea.
The director of a state council that trains prosecutors said he doubted the disqualification attempt would succeed, and he was unaware of any major case where attorneys had been disqualified for bias…
The prosecutor’s 18-year-old daughter, who attended the event where Kirk was shot, later texted her father in the Utah County Attorney’s Office to describe the chaotic aftermath, according to court filings and testimony. She did not see the shooting but heard a loud pop, according to an affidavit submitted by prosecutors.
Robinson’s attorneys say the close connection between the prosecution team and a person present for Kirk’s killing “raises serious concerns about past and future prosecutorial decision-making,” according to court documents. They also argue that the “rush” to seek the death penalty is evidence of “strong emotional reactions” by the prosecution and merits disqualification of the entire team.
In the clip below, Yoo suggests that this might have been an effort by the defense to buy time, but says that it is unlikely to succeed. He also says that Robinson has ‘no chance of winning,’ considering the strength of the evidence against him.
Watch the whole thing below:
This case is going to be watched very closely. People across the country are going to demand justice for Charlie Kirk. As proof of that, I’ll leave you with this tweet from Senator Mike Lee of Utah.
Tyler Robinson publicly executed Charlie Kirk
Tyler Robinson should be publicly executed https://t.co/fkNmyPLQTB
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) January 16, 2026
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How absurd, The judge shouldn’t be biased. Anyone else who cares.
Leftists thrive on the Judge being a Leftists
That;s not the point. There is no reason for a prosecutor to not be biased. After all the are the prosecutor and getting a conviction is their job.
Jurors also. But prosecutors are supposed to be biased against defendants. After all, if they didn’t believe them to be guilty they wouldn’t be prosecuting them.
My father (who passed in 2018 at 88) was a long-time advocate of public executions for their deterrent effect.
I had a French teacher in the 8th grade who related to us that when he was a child he lived near a state penitentiary at which executions via electric chair were conducted (pardon the pun). He said that he and the other kids used to go to a place outside the facility from which they could watch the lights dim when the switch was pulled. Apparently, they got a charge out of it.
Harvey Milk got off with the Twinkie defense. Maybe Tyler can succeed with the twink defense.
Correction: The killer of Harvey Milk (and George Moscone) offered up the “Twinkie defense” and it apparently worked, as he was convicted of something less than murder, maybe voluntary manslaughter. He claimed some chemical imbalance due to his overdosing on the sugary sponge cakes.. and the jury bought it. SF jurys do that….. just last week the let a confessed killer evade a murder conviction for a flavor of manslaughter.
Utah jurors are probably a different breed of cat.
No, he didn’t. “Twinkie defense” was a term made up by an irresponsible reporter.
White’s defense was that he was suffering from depression, and therefore had a diminished capacity for judgment. The jury was convinced enough that it convicted him of voluntary manslaughter rather than murder.
As we discussed yesterday, voluntary manslaughter means the defendant meant to kill the victim, but there were mitigating circumstances; in this case that he wasn’t entirely in his right mind at the time.
The only connection Twinkies had to this defense is that his lawyer mentioned in passing, as one symptom of his depression, that although he was normally very health-conscious, he’d been binging on junk food.
This twink was binging on transsexuals.
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“aggravated murder”
keep allowing the lefty mindset to split hairs and we will continue to give them the power to release criminals ( no need to split hairs on that word) back into society that remain a danger,, to all except those that have released the criminals
Mike Lee
Tyler Robinson publicly executed Charlie Kirk
Tyler Robinson should be publicly executed
Hear, Hear!
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I expect this guy won’t go to trial for another two years or so.