An analysis from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) could not conclusively connect a bullet fragment recovered during Charlie Kirk’s autopsy to the rifle found near the scene of the rightwing political activist’s killing – and the FBI is running additional tests, lawyers for Kirk’s accused murderer said in recent court filings.
In the court filings, Tyler Robinson’s defense team also asked for a delay to a preliminary hearing scheduled in May, saying they need time to review the bullet analysis as well as an enormous amount of other material that could contribute to the suspect’s defense.
The ATF’s bullet analysis report has been kept private, but attorneys have cited snippets in other public filings that say the results were inconclusive.
The defense said in its motion that it may try to use the analysis to clear Robinson of blame during the preliminary hearing while prosecutors aim to show they have enough evidence against him to proceed with a trial.
I thought the kid more or less confessed. Are they saying he actually didn’t? Or that he fired, but he missed? Also, did we ever find out what the real story with the kid was. There was a lot of conflicting accounts about his life before this all went down.
I mean it’s entirely possible they intimidated the kid in to confessing to a crime he didn’t commit.
The intent of the whole “We know you did it, we have lots of evidence, confess and we’ll go easy on you” shtick is that someone who didn’t do it would know they couldn’t have evidence and thus wouldn’t be pressured to confess by it. Problem is, most people know that cops plant, tamper and manufacture evidence constantly so it’s actually a pretty good way to intimidate people in to confessing to crimes they didn’t do.
Well, I thpught he confessed to his dad or something, and his dad called it in because he thought his son was going to kill himself or something. Not like an interrogation confession.