{"id":49969,"date":"2026-06-01T21:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49969"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:21:21","slug":"judge-decides-to-keep-charlie-kirk-hearings-open-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49969","title":{"rendered":"Judge Decides to Keep Charlie Kirk Hearings Open to Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Judge Decides to Keep Charlie Kirk Hearings Open to Public<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">Judge Decides to Keep Charlie Kirk Hearings Open to Public<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">Utah district judge, Tony Graf, rejected the defense\u2019s bid to close the hearings in the Charlie Kirk murder case. The defendant, Tyler J. Robinson, is accused of fatally shooting Mr. Kirk, the conservative activist.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">A party seeking to close a preliminary hearing must show that adverse publicity traceable to the opening hearing poses a realistic likelihood of prejudice to a fair trial. Public access to the judicial \u2014 to judicial proceedings also serve in an important role in maintaining confidence in the fairness and transparency of the judicial process. This court finds these showings have not been made here.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">Utah district judge, Tony Graf, rejected the defense\u2019s bid to close the hearings in the Charlie Kirk murder case. The defendant, Tyler J. Robinson, is accused of fatally shooting Mr. Kirk, the conservative activist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Meg Felling<\/p>\n<p>June 1, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: Judge Decides to Keep Charlie Kirk Hearings Open to Public transcript Back transcript Judge Decides to Keep Charlie Kirk Hearings Open to Public Utah district judge, Tony Graf, rejected the defense\u2019s bid to close the hearings in the Charlie Kirk murder case. The defendant, Tyler J. Robinson, is accused of fatally shooting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[7176,23284,12999,675,12560,3866,177],"class_list":{"0":"post-49969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-charlie","9":"tag-decides","10":"tag-hearings","11":"tag-judge","12":"tag-kirk","13":"tag-open","14":"tag-public"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}