KUTV: New Judge Takes the Death-Penalty Case
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A two-part screenshot. The upper half is a KUTV article headlined "New Utah judge takes on accused killer's death penalty case in Charlie Kirk murder", bylined "by Jim Spiewak, KUTV | Wed, October 15th 2025 at 9:48 PM" and updated the following morning. The lead reads: "SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) - Judge Tony Graf Jr. has found himself at the center of one of Utah's most closely watched murder cases less than two months after taking the bench."
The lower half repeats the Utah State Bar press release of Friday, May 2, 2025, announcing that Governor Spencer J. Cox appointed Tony F. Graf to the Fourth District Court, "filling a vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Robert Lunnen." The capture is watermarked with the X handles that circulated it.
Pairing the two documents is the argument in miniature: a judge appointed in May and sworn in on August 4 was assigned, roughly six weeks later, to the highest-profile capital case in the state. Nothing about that sequence is improper — vacancies are filled on their own schedule and case assignment follows court rules — and no impropriety is alleged. Researchers cite it as the real-world timeline that the search-interest charts for both judges' names should be measured against. See Judge Tony Graf, Judge Robert Lunnen, judges, and judges Graf and Lunnen searches.
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