2026年11月9日 美国东部时间下午5:05 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
犹他州一名法官于周一宣布，被控暗杀保守派活动人士查理·柯克（Charlie Kirk）的泰勒·罗宾逊（Tyler Robinson）将于2028年6月21日开始受审。
柯克的遗孀埃丽卡·柯克（Erika Kirk）的律师上月曾向法院申请在不迟于2027年10月4日进行快速审判，而罗宾逊的代理律师则以证据开示量巨大为由，要求审判安排在2029年第三季度。检方提议将审判时间定在2028年1月，避免在感恩节和圣诞节假期期间进行庭审。
法官托尼·格拉夫（Tony Graf）周一确定了一个介于双方诉求之间的日期。
柯克的家人称这一决定“令人极为失望”。
“尽管没有任何东西能挽回我们与查理相伴的时光，但每多一天得不到伸张正义，就会加剧我们家族的痛苦，让我们等待追责的时间更久，”柯克一家在一份声明中表示。
法院为本次审判安排了105个庭审日，将举行每月一次的审前 status conferences——“status conferences”此处应为庭审进度会议——以“维护处于危险之中的宪法权利”。
另定于2028年4月11日举行一场听证会，届时法院将裁定双方律师是否能在陪审团遴选前完成必要工作。陪审团问卷截止日期为2028年5月3日。
今年9月，格拉夫作出了支持检方的裁决，检方称他们有足够证据对罗宾逊提起严重谋杀罪指控，这名23岁的嫌疑人可能面临死刑、无期徒刑不得假释，或25年至终身监禁且可获假释的刑罚。
审判程序定于上午9:30在犹他州普罗沃市第四区法院的4B法庭开始。
罗宾逊对严重谋杀罪指控拒不认罪。他被指控于2025年9月10日在犹他谷大学向数千名民众发表演讲时枪杀了31岁的查理·柯克。迄今为止，法庭诉讼程序已持续一年多。
被告在枪击案发生一天后自首。他的律师未就查理·柯克的死因提出其他说法。
查理·柯克在2024年选举期间帮助动员了围绕特朗普总统的年轻选民。特朗普上月在社交媒体上就该审判发表看法，称罗宾逊应“在一个月内”接受审判。这名共和党人批评格拉夫——一名前检察官，去年被任命为法官——“花了无限长时间去问那些人们早已知道答案的问题”。
犹他县检察官指控罗宾逊因查理·柯克的政治信仰而将其作为目标。他们表示，在用于杀害查理·柯克的步枪中发现的一颗子弹刻有“嘿，法西斯！抓住你！”的字样，罗宾逊还在一条短信中写道关于查理·柯克：“我受够了他的仇恨。有些仇恨是无法通过协商消除的。”
罗宾逊的律师本周在法庭文件中称，他们必须梳理检方移交的数万份文件。他们计划对罗宾逊的生活展开广泛调查，以寻找可在定罪后影响量刑的减轻情节，并为陪审团遴选等问题投入“大量时间”。
埃利·菲茨杰拉德（Elli Fitzgerald）对本文有贡献。
Charlie Kirk’s accused killer set to stand trial for aggravated murder in June 2028
November 9, 2026 / 5:05 PM EST / CBS/AP
Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk, is set to stand trial beginning June 21, 2028, a Utah judge announced on Monday.
Attorneys for Kirk’s widow,Erika Kirk, last month asked the court for a speedy trial no later than Oct. 4, 2027, while Robinson’s representatives requested that the trial take place in the third quarter of 2029, citing massive amounts of discovery. Prosecutors proposed the trial begin in January 2028, rather than hold the proceedings during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
Judge Tony Graf on Monday set a date between the three parties’ requests.
Kirk’s family called the decision “deeply disappointing.”
“While nothing will restore the time we have lost with Charlie, every additional day without justice prolongs our family’s pain and forces us to wait even longer for accountability,” the family said in a statement.
The court has allotted 105 court days for the trial, with monthly pretrial status conferences going forward to “protect the constitutional rights at stake.”
A hearing is also scheduled for April 11, 2028, during which the court will decide whether attorneys for both sides can complete the essential work before jury selection. Jury questionnaires are due May 3, 2028.
In September, Graf decided in favor of prosecutors who say they have enough evidence against Robinson to put the 23-year-old on trial on acharge of aggravated murder, which could see him face the death penalty, life in prison without parole, or 25 years to life in prison with parole.
Trial proceedings are set to begin at 9:30 a.m. in courtroom 4B in the Fourth District courthouse in Provo, Utah.
Robinson has pleaded not guilty to the aggravated murder charge. He is accused of gunning down Charlie Kirk, 31, as the activist spoke to several thousand people at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025. Court proceedings so far have already lasted more than a year.
The defendant turned himself in a day after the shooting. His lawyers have not offered alternative theories for Charlie Kirk’s death.
Charlie Kirk helped galvanize young voters around President Trump during the 2024 election. Mr. Trump weighed in on the trial in a social media post last month, saying Robinson should be tried “within a month.” The Republican criticized Graf — a former prosecutor appointed as a judge last year — for “taking forever to ask questions that people already know the answer to.”
Utah County prosecutors allege Robinson targeted Charlie Kirk for his political beliefs. They say a bullet found in the rifle used to kill Charlie Kirk was engraved with the words “Hey Facist! CATCH!” and that Robinson wrote in a text message about Charlie Kirk: “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
Robinson’s attorneys said in court filings this week that they must sift through tens of thousands of files turned over by prosecutors. They plan to conduct extensive investigations into Robinson’s life in a search for mitigating factors that could influence his sentence if convicted, and to devote “substantial time” to issues such as jury selection.
Elli Fitzgerald contributed to this report.
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