District Judge Tony Graf allotted 105 days for the proceedings (Photo: AP).
The trial of the man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk will begin in June 2028, a Utah judge ruled on Monday, setting a schedule that falls between the timelines proposed by prosecutors and the defence. District Judge Tony Graf allotted 105 days for the proceedings, with jury selection scheduled to begin on June 21, 2028. Robinson’s lawyers had proposed starting the trial in 2029, while prosecutors said they could be ready by October 2027 and had suggested January 2028 to avoid the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
“A trial in the summer of 2028, three years after Charlie’s assassination, does not feel very speedy to the Kirk family,” Neiman told the judge. The Kirk family described the decision as a “delay” in a statement issued after the hearing, saying, “every additional day without justice prolongs our family’s pain.” Kirk family expresses disappointment over trial date Erika Kirk’s attorney, Jeffrey Neiman, disagreed with the timeline, saying the family had wanted the trial to begin as early as next October.
Trump said Robinson should be tried “within a month” and criticised Graf for “taking forever to ask questions that people already know the answer to.” The case has drawn attention from Kirk’s supporters, including US President Donald Trump, who called for a swift trial in a social media post last month.