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(NewsNation) — In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting, questions present displacement to however attorneys volition prime a assemblage for his alleged killer, Tyler Robinson.
Dr. Lillian Glass, a assemblage consultant, told "Banfield" successful an quality Monday that uncovering an impartial assemblage is the "bottom line" successful the case.
"That's the key," Glass says. "That is the key, nary substance what, due to the fact that we bash unrecorded successful a nine wherever you person to beryllium unbiased" successful court.
"And 1 of the bully things astir being tried successful Utah is that adjacent though it's a blimpish state, 60 percent of the radical are Mormons. And erstwhile they justice a case, they often accidental that they're impartial," she added.
Since Kirk’s execution took spot successful Utah, Robinson could look the decease penalty. If convicted of an aggravated execution charge, Robinson besides could look 25 years to beingness successful situation without parole.
Glass pointed retired that a batch of the leaders successful the Latter-day Saints religion are successful favour of the decease penalty, which could airs a situation for the defence if Robinson is recovered guilty.
Lawyers request to inquire lengthy questions: Jury consultant
Glass acknowledged that trying to find the close radical should beryllium done with lengthy and peculiar questioning passim the enactment process.
“Find retired astir their background," she said. "Do they person anybody successful their household that's ever been assaulted oregon murdered? Do they person immoderate relatives that person been successful the aesculapian field?"
"I privation to cognize their cognition towards instrumentality enforcement. I privation to cognize if they are reasoning astir however the radical would respond successful presumption of presumption of innocence."
Along with the questioning for prospective jurors, Glass believes looking astatine everything is crucial. One of the main sticking points: societal media.
"It has to beryllium precise speedy due to the fact that this is simply a speedy process," she says. "You don't person hours and hours to bash this."
Federal authorities charging Tyler Robinson
NewsNation confirmed with a Department of Justice root that Robinson is expected to beryllium federally charged arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week.
Robinson was arrested connected suspicion of aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing superior bodily harm and obstruction of justice, according to tribunal documents.
Utah’s apical instrumentality enforcement authoritative said Monday that important grounds successful the assassination of Charlie Kirk volition beryllium made nationalist pursuing the suspect’s archetypal tribunal appearance.
