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Kirk Murder Prosecutor Held in Contempt, Tyler Robinson Still Faces DP | Crime Alert 06.29.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. A Utah judge has issued a major
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  Speaker 2: ruling in the murder trial of Tyler Robinson, the twenty
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  Speaker 2: three year old accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk
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  Speaker 2: on a college campus last September. Judge Tony Graff found
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  Speaker 2: prosecutor Christopher Ballard in civil contempt. The defense filed the
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  Speaker 2: motion after Ballard spoke to media outlets, including TMZ, regarding
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  Speaker 2: an inconclusive ballistics report. The defense noted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
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  Speaker 2: Firearms and Explosives could not match the autopsy bullet to
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  Speaker 2: the rifle tide to Robinson, while Ballard claimed he was
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  Speaker 2: clarifying that the ATF also could not exclude the rifle.
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  Speaker 2: Judge Graff ruled his commentary to TMZ, declaring that prosecutors
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  Speaker 2: possessed ample evidence to overcome the presumption of innocence, violated
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  Speaker 2: a pre trial publicity order. Still, Judge Graff dealt a
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  Speaker 2: blow to the defense by refusing to remove the death penalty,
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  Speaker 2: calling the request grossly disproportionate to the misconduct. The judge
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  Speaker 2: stated potential prejudice could be addressed during jury selection while
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  Speaker 2: allowing the defense to recoup legal fees related to the
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  Speaker 2: contempt proceedings. Robinson, who has not yet entered a plea,
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  Speaker 2: faces charges of aggravated murder, firearm use, obstruction of justice,
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  Speaker 2: and witnessed ampering. Turning now to the chilling abduction of
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  Speaker 2: eighty four year old Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today's
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  Speaker 2: show co host Savannah Guthrie, a mysterious tipster is claiming
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  Speaker 2: to hold critical video evidence of the kidnapping. TMZ founder
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  Speaker 2: Harvey Levin revealed he has received a series of emails
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  Speaker 2: from an anonymous sender claiming two kidnappers were directly involved.
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  Speaker 2: The latest email states the individual has a phone hidden
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  Speaker 2: in a secure location containing a short video of the
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  Speaker 2: main suspect with Nancy on what was likely her last day,
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  Speaker 2: along with their names, addresses, and photographs. The extortionist is
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  Speaker 2: demanding one Bitcoin valued around sixty thousand dollars in exchange
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  Speaker 2: for the device. Law enforcement sources remain split on the
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  Speaker 2: authenticity of these demands, with some fearing it's a cruel hoax,
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  Speaker 2: while others remain cautious. TMZ claims to have authenticated the
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  Speaker 2: emails because the sender included a private bitcoin account previously
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  Speaker 2: undisclosed to the public. The anonymous emailer appears to be
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  Speaker 2: closely following news updates on the case, explicitly reacting to
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  Speaker 2: viral reports about a false alarm last week and stating
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  Speaker 2: I am not the idiot who recently called in a
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  Speaker 2: tip about her burial site in Mexico. Prompted by these messages,
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  Speaker 2: Levin took to x to publicly challenge the sender's legitimacy.
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  Speaker 1: If this person is real, then go to wherever that
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  Speaker 1: phone is and get a screen grab of something proving
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  Speaker 1: that you're not a liar and somebody who is trying
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  Speaker 1: to inflict more pain than the Guthrie family. If you've
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  Speaker 1: got something, send it. I mean, you've been sending us
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  Speaker 1: more than a dozen emails. Send us something to show
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  Speaker 1: you're not a fraudster.
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  Speaker 2: Levin has officially turned the correspondence over to the FBI. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: retired FBI Supervisory Agent Jim Clemente expressed deep skepticism to reporters,
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  Speaker 2: questioning why anyone would settle for a single bitcoin when
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  Speaker 2: Savannah Guthrie has offered a one million dollar reward for
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  Speaker 2: her mother's safe return alongside an additional one hundred twenty
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  Speaker 2: five thousand dollars from Tucson's Crime Stoppers affiliate. Eighty eight
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  Speaker 2: Crime authorities urge anyone with information to contact one eight
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  Speaker 2: hundred call FBI. More crime and justice news After this,
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  Speaker 2: in California, a bettereral judge declared a mistrial for Jonathan Renderneck,
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  Speaker 2: accused of intentionally igniting the devastating Palisaates fire in January
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. The fire caused twelve deaths and up
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  Speaker 2: to forty five billion dollars in damage. The jury deadlock
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  Speaker 2: ten to two in favor of acquittal. When asked if
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  Speaker 2: further instructions or testimony would help, the jury stated nothing
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  Speaker 2: could assist them. United States Attorney Bill A. Sale expressed
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  Speaker 2: disappointment on x, asserting the evidence as strong and confirming
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  Speaker 2: plans to retry the case before a new jury. Conversely,
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  Speaker 2: defense attorney Stephen Haney argued the mistrial shows the government
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  Speaker 2: lacks sufficient evidence. One juror, designated as Juror number four,
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  Speaker 2: spoke publicly about the gridlock, calling a retrial a waste
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  Speaker 2: of American dollars.
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  Speaker 3: It makes me sad as an American like that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we couldn't come to a conclusion. And I mean honestly
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  Speaker 3: wish I could come back and do it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because I wish we could have came to a conclusion.
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  Speaker 2: During the trial, behavioral analyst Kevin Kellm testified that rinder
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  Speaker 2: Neeck's actions fit a profile driven by societal revenge, focusing
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  Speaker 2: on personal finance and lifestyle problems he could not handle.
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  Speaker 2: Prosecutors reveal rinder Necked used chat gpt to generate dystopian
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  Speaker 2: images reflecting a hatred for the wealthy, and federal filing
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  Speaker 2: show he was heavily fixated on Luigi Mangioni, the man
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  Speaker 2: accused of murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Investigator's note
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  Speaker 2: render neck searched online to kill all the billionaires and
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  Speaker 2: viewed his arson as an act of desperation against societal enslavement.
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  Speaker 2: Mangioni's attorney, Karen Friedman agna Phillo, released a statement strongly
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  Speaker 2: condemning any attempts to link her client to political violence.
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  Speaker 2: alert I'm Sidney Silvani,