{"id":2626972,"date":"2026-07-08T20:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-trial-day-3\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:09:06","slug":"heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-trial-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-trial-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Need To Know About The Kirk Assassination Trial, Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-trial-day-3%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2626972&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An interview with Lance Twiggs, the roommate and alleged \u201ctransgender\u201d lover of accused shooter Tyler Robinson, was a focal point during the third day of preliminary hearings in Robinson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-ripper-sentenced-to-death\/\" title=\"\u2018Hollywood Ripper\u2019 sentenced to death\">capital murder trial<\/a>. Evidence confirmed Robinson voluntarily surrendered to police on September 11, the day after the shooting of Charlie Kirk, countering online doubts about his involvement. the proceedings introduced more witnesses and legal representatives, including Lauren Hunt, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maricopa-county-scrapping-voting-machines-used-in-gop-audit\/\" title=\"Maricopa County Scrapping Voting Machines Used In GOP Audit\">deputy county attorney<\/a> with extensive experience in criminal prosecutions, and Jeffrey Neiman, Kirk\u2019s family attorney, who advocated for transparency by requesting the full release of Twiggs\u2019 interview.<\/p>\n<p>The media\u2019s role was highlighted, with attorney Michael Judd pushing for broader access to courtroom exhibits. Witnesses included utah State Bureau of Examination agent Brian Davis, who shared details of Robinson\u2019s surrender process and custody, and footage of Robinson\u2019s detention was played publicly. Significant focus was placed on two interviews with Twiggs, who was granted immunity from prosecution regarding the case. The court considered releasing parts of these videos, with Judge Tony Graf redacting certain sensitive details like text messages and chats, while contemplating whether to incorporate the full footage into the case record.<\/p>\n<p>Anticipated next steps include the continuation of twiggs\u2019 testimony and further examination of evidence, with day four scheduled to feature the playback of the redacted video and more detailed discussion of Twiggs\u2019 involvement. The proceedings emphasize transparency and the careful handling of evidence related to the case.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>An interview with Lance Twiggs, the roommate and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >alleged \u201ctransgender\u201d-identifying lover<\/a> of accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson, took center stage on day three of the preliminary hearings prior to Robinson\u2019s capital murder trial.<\/p>\n<p>Another crucial piece of evidence, in direct contrast to some theories online questioning Robinson\u2019s involvement, is that Robinson turned himself in to Washington County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">law enforcement<\/a> at around 9:00 p.m. on Sept. 11, the day after he allegedly shot Kirk. He was there with his parents, and all were interviewed by the authorities.<\/p>\n<p>As with hearing days <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/06\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-trial-day-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/07\/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-charlie-kirk-assassination-trial-day-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two<\/a>, more people were introduced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Personnel<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4><strong>State of Utah<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atty.utahcounty.gov\/cms\/uploads\/Lauren_Hunt_bio_91d0776b06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lauren Hunt<\/a>, Deputy County Attorney. According to her bio, she has \u201cpracticed law since 2013 and currently serves as a criminal prosecutor with the Utah County Attorney\u2019s Office. For nearly eight years, she has prosecuted a wide range of misdemeanor and felony cases \u2014 including theft, assault, attempted murder, and homicide \u2014 while developing a particular specialization in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/court-expedites-trumps-absolute-immunity-appeal-in-defamation-case\/\" title=\"Court speeds up Trump&#039;s appeal in defamation ... over &#039;absolute immunity&#039;.\">sexual offense cases<\/a>. She is a member of the Office\u2019s Special Victims Unit, where she focuses on crimes involving vulnerable victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Kirk Family<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Jeffrey Neiman is the Kirk family\u2019s attorney. Until Wednesday, he had yet to speak up in the hearings, but when <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BreccanFThies\/status\/2074973924639543790?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">redactions were being made to the video of the Twiggs interview<\/a>, he <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BreccanFThies\/status\/2074980983175082079?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> the family would like the interview in its entirety to be played \u201cfor the world to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo not be transparent here, to not be open, to not let the world see what happened will create doubt and distrust in the judicial system, and that\u2019s not what anybody wants,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s not what any of us believe should happen here. And we\u2019d ask the court to consider the position of the family in making its ultimate decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Media<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Michael Judd is an attorney representing the interests of the news media. The media is not a party to the case, but has an interest in certain aspects. While Judge Tony Graf has allowed quite a bit of transparency with regard to the media, Judd has argued that cameras should be able to capture a greater portion of the exhibits than has been allowed in some cases.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Witnesses<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>State witness 4: Brian Davis, an agent with the Utah State Bureau of Investigation with 18 years at the agency. Davis has a total of 27 years in law enforcement with experience in violent crime, homicides, sex crimes, drug crimes, firearm crimes, white collar crime, and fraud. He said he has worked more than 60 homicide cases. Davis was assigned to be a case agent on the Kirk assassination investigation along with Agent David Hull.<\/p>\n<p>Davis was called into the Washington County Sheriff\u2019s Department after being notified that Robinson wanted to turn himself in. Robinson turned himself in, accompanied by his parents and a family friend, around 9:00 p.m. Davis arrived at the department around 11:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson\u2019s parents were interviewed separately, but simultaneously. Robinson himself was detained officially on Sept. 12 at around 4:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Tony Graf allowed a short video of Robinson being held to be played for media cameras in court.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>While that video was not much of an issue, a separate video of an interview with Twiggs took up nearly the rest of the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Twiggs was interviewed by Ryan McBride, one of the Utah County attorneys prosecuting the case against Robinson, at least once. There are a total of two Twiggs interviews, one that took place on Sept. 12, 2025, and another that took place on April 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In both interviews, Twiggs was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BreccanFThies\/status\/2074950488458678405?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">given<\/a> \u201cuse immunity,\u201d meaning he cannot be prosecuted based on the information provided in the interview \u2014 but can be prosecuted based on information not covered in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson attorney Richard Novak objected to the video interview being played publicly, and the state prosecutors asked for only the audio to be played.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>We are once again talking about closing down the proceedings related to a new exhibit: a video interview of Lance TWIGGS to be played in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Media attorney Michael JUDD is arguing that the interview is important enough that the public deserves to see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven&#8217;t\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Breccan F. Thies (@BreccanFThies) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BreccanFThies\/status\/2074956562410680381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>After a considerable amount of deliberation, Graf decided that significant portions of the video should be redacted for public view, but that he would consider the full video in his probable cause determination as to whether this case should go to trial.<\/p>\n<p>The redactions made by Graf concern discussion of the contents of text messages, Discord chats, and a \u201cnote,\u201d all of which prosecutors say they will move to enter into the record as well. They are not yet deemed admissible.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>For those anticipating the TWIGGS testimony, it appears that STATE attorney HUNT said many of the TWIGGS questions will be asked when Utah SBI Agent FAUMUINA retakes the stand after Agent DAVIS\u2019s testimony.<\/p>\n<p>STATE attorneys say FAUMUINA could take the stand today, but it will\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Breccan F. Thies (@BreccanFThies) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BreccanFThies\/status\/2074946729443463303?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Day four of the hearing on Thursday is set to open with the playing of the redacted video, with audio only captured by news media. The hearing is also likely to go into much more detail about Twiggs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Breccan F. Thies is the White House correspondent for The Federalist. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Dao Prize for Excellence in Investigative Journalism. As an investigative journalist, he previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twiggs interview highlights key evidence in Robinson case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2626973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-08-183035.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[32417,35416,82317,33118,82318],"class_list":["post-2626972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-court-case","tag-day-3","tag-kirk-assassination-trial","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-political-crime"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-08-183035.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2626972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626976,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2626972\/revisions\/2626976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2626973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2626972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2626972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2626972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}