Fourth District Court — Provo
Utah's Fourth District Court in Provo, Utah is the judicial venue for State v. Tyler Robinson, the prosecution of the accused shooter in the Charlie Kirk assassination. Robinson is presumed innocent; this page documents the court location and public hearing record, not guilt.
Judge and appointment context
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Presiding judge | Tony Graf (Tony F. Graf Jr.) — appointed May 2, 2025 by Gov. Spencer Cox |
| Prior vacancy | Robert Lunnen retired effective August 1, 2025 |
| First appearance | September 16, 2025 — video feed from Utah County Jail; no bail on aggravated murder charges per reporting |
Subsequent motions — evidence release, discovery disputes, gag orders — are tracked on Tyler Robinson — Trial and court/mirandize.
Custody chain to the courtroom
Robinson's physical path to Provo hearings:
- UVU crime scene (Sept 10)
- Dairy Queen / I-15 south (Sept 10–11)
- Cedar City Maverik (Sept 11 morning)
- Washington County Sheriff — Hurricane (surrender Sept 11 evening)
- Utah County Jail — Spanish Fork (booked ~Sept 12)
- Fourth District Court — Provo (hearings, often remote video)
Judicial speech restrictions
Judge Graf's December 16, 2025 gag order — issued on the court's own motion — is documented on Censorship — Court Gag Orders. That order affects what witnesses and lawyers may say, not the physical court address.
Laws (Charlie Kirk)
Unsealed hearing transcripts, discovery rulings, and gag-order text are among records the Charlie Kirk Investigation Laws may bring into public view.
Citizen Investigator Claims on X
Fourth District Court in Provo is the physical hub of the gag-order vs cameras fight. March 14, 2026 posts (@DerrickEvans4WV, @GuntherEagleman) celebrated rulings keeping cameras and key documents public.
July 2026 prelim days produced the Bagley body-cam, screwdriver, and SBI/FBI multi-agency testimony summaries dominating X. The courthouse is therefore both a legal venue and an information bottleneck. See Evidence Sealing 2026, Trial Press.
Interesting In This Area
- Booking 460956 is where the video appearances originate from.
- The Hurricane surrender preceded a 2 AM custody transfer north.
- Goat Island and Valhalla are a symbolic thread, not a docket entry.
- The location index treats this courthouse as an information bottleneck.
Interesting In Other Areas
- The gag order came on the court's own motion, requested by neither side.
- Digital forensics were reportedly sealed until March 2026.
- Judge Graf was appointed in May 2025 to a bench vacated that August.
- Press coverage shifted from the manhunt to what stays sealed.
Other Pages In This Section
A photo of Goat Island was reportedly the desktop background on the seized computer, and Valhalla Danish House sits down the road from it. A Grok reply called the pairing unverified coincidence; both readings are kept here.
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Tyler Robinson Residences (St. George & Washington City)
Two southern-Utah addresses, 250 miles from campus: a St. George apartment and the Washington City family home where the surrender was arranged. Whether the party stopped at the apartment first is still open.
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Every murder investigation eventually becomes a map. The confirmed pins — courtyard, hospital, woods, Dairy Queen, Maverik, Hurricane, Spanish Fork — are weighed here against the disputed parcels and the airport threads.
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The routing memo for every address in the case — crime scene, drive south, surrender, jail, courthouse — separating confirmed record locations from reported-claim ones. Read it before treating any pin as decisive.
Read thisElsewhere In The Investigation
The judge presiding over State v. Robinson, appointed in May 2025 to a bench vacated that August. His public court actions are documented here; nothing beyond them is alleged.
Read thisA gag order issued on the court's own motion, requested by neither side, restricting what parties and counsel may say. Lawful censorship, and a shaping force on everything published since.
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Once the manhunt ended, press value moved from who shot him to what the state can prove and what stays sealed. A running index of the trial coverage, outlet by outlet.
Read thisDigital forensics sealed, discovery under protective order, hearings closed, autopsy withheld. What the sealing holds back is exactly the raw material that would settle how Charlie Kirk was killed.
Read thisThis website's author is @HolonCitizen on X and YouTube/@HolonCitizen. Follow me there.
Interesting
- Officers reportedly showed 785 College Drive workers a photo that did not match Robinson.
- Callsign switching on one tail number muddies where SAM-112 actually flew.
- Trackers logged SAM650 at Andrews, Nashville and Colorado Springs before September 10.
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