{"id":750634,"date":"2026-07-08T14:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750634\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:23:08","slug":"charlie-kirk-assassination-live-updates-defense-attorneys-question-dna-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/750634\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk assassination live updates: Defense attorneys question DNA evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense attorney Richard Novak sought to block prosecutors from introducing a statement describing the traditional Christian values of Turning Point USA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis doesn\u2019t say anything about Mr. Robinson\u2019s state of mind,\u201d Novak said about the statement from Turning Point USA board member David Engelhardt. \u201cI don\u2019t think that this court should be deciding \u2014 based on the record before it \u2014 where, if at all, politics and religion intersect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge ruled that the Turning Point statement was relevant and would be \u201cprovisionally admitted\u201d with a final decision at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defense attorney Richard Novak sought to block prosecutors from introducing a statement describing the traditional Christian values of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,321960,49204,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-750634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-charlie-erika-kirk","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}