Setting aside all the conspiracy theories about who shot Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson stands accused by the state of Utah of committing that heinous crime. And his case had a flurry of pretrial activity and a rare and interesting motion by the defense that could shake up, or at least delay, the trial.

The defense filed a motion to recuse the entire Utah County Attorney’s Office from handling the prosecution because one of the deputy prosecutor’s adult children (presumably a teenager or a college-aged student) was at the Utah Valley University event when Kirk was shot.

Even though the adult child (whom I’ll refer to as “he”) didn’t see the shooting, never saw Kirk after he was shot, nor saw him being evacuated from the crime scene, the defense maintains that the mere fact that he texted his father to say “Charlie got shot” and other non-specific, non-eye witness comments, means that not only should the deputy prosecutor be recused from the case, the entire Utah County Attorney’s Office should be ordered off of the case.

In response to the defense’s creative motion to recuse, the prosecution claims that the adult child was positioned 85 feet away from Kirk and out of the field of vision of the shooter when Kirk was shot. The adult child was looking at the audience, “heard a loud sound, like a pop,” then heard someone yell, “He’s been shot.” He never looked back at Kirk and did not see his wound, nor did he see Kirk carried from the scene. He texted his father, a deputy prosecuting attorney who was with the elected County Attorney Jeff Gray at a conference in Ogden.

After news of the shooting, both the deputy prosecutor and Gray left the conference (at separate times) and........

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