​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. Accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson filed a Sunday court motion to bar all still cameras, video cameras and microphones from a critical hearing on April 17.. On that day, Robinson is scheduled to be present in court, and the state and defense are expected to make a flurry of motions.. Judge Tony Graf has not made a ruling on whether to ban electronic media throughout the course of the trial.. Fox News Legal Analyst Donna Rotunno, and host of the podcast “Crime & Justice with Donna Rotunno,” said Graf should “take control” and make a definitive ruling on media in the courtroom throughout the rest of the proceedings.. TYLER ROBINSON PROSECUTORS SAY CHARLIE KIRK SHOOTING TEXTS SHOW CONFUSION, NOT BIAS, TO REBUT CONFLICT CLAIM. She said the defense asking only to ban electronic media for the April 17 hearing could be indicative of a larger strategy, and that they may ask to bar media on a hearing-by-hearing basis. That way, if Graf rules against them, they will only lose the motion for one specific hearing, and not for all of the proceedings moving forward.. Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, has pleaded for cameras to be allowed during the trial.. “There were cameras all over my husband when he was murdered,” she told Fox News’ Jesse Watters in an exclusive interview in November. “There have been cameras all over my friends and family mourning. There have been cameras all over me, analyzing my every move, analyzing my every smile, my every tear. We deserve to have cameras in there.”. WHY POLITICAL ASSASSINATION CASES AREN’T AUTOMATICALLY DEATH PENALTY ELIGIBLE. “Why not be transparent?” Kirk continued. “There’s nothing to hide. I know there’s not because I’ve seen what the case is built on.”. Prosecutors also filed a response to a motion filed by Robinson’s team last week, asking the court a May 18 preliminary hearing back. The defense is asking to push back the preliminary hearing until expert discovery is complete, and prosecutors argue that the hearing should be held on the scheduled date.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. The state argues that the defense is trying to confer upon itself rights during the preliminary stage of the trial that it is not entitled to until the actual trial itself, and that discovery is meant to be reserved for the trial, not preliminary proceedings.. Rotunno agrees that the defense has been given enough discovery leeway in the preliminary stage of the court proceedings, and that the hearing should remain scheduled for May 18.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. A Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy sifting through money taken from an illegal immigrant suspect arrested on drug charges became ill when she was hit in the face with airborne powdered fentanyl and cocaine, authorities said.. The exposure happened when Jose Fredy Rodriguez Acuna, 25, of Portage, was being booked into the jail on March 31, the Columbia County Sheriff’s office said.. Acuna had been arrested earlier that day during a traffic stop. While he was being booked into the jail, deputies were taking inventory of Acuna’s belongings, authorities said.. “While manipulating US Currency taken from the subject, she unfolded a bill which contained a powdery substance,” said Columbia County Sheriff Roger Brandner. “The powdery substance became airborne directly into the face of the deputy causing an exposure.”. FBI ARRESTS 55 IN MASSIVE DRUG RING WITH ALLEGED CHINA SUPPLIER FLOODING US STREETS WITH FENTANYL. The deputy suffered a “medical event” and needed immediate care, authorities said. Other deputies administered Narcan, an over-the-counter nasal spray or injection that rapidly reverses opioid overdoses, on the sick deputy.. The deputy was taken to a hospital and was expected to make a full recovery.. FATAL DRUG COMBINATION SPARKS ALERT AS ‘RHINO TRANQ’ SPREADS ACROSS US. The powdered substance tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl, the sheriff’s office said. Last week, Acuna was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of narcotic drugs.. He was ordered held on a $1,000 cash bond. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged a detainer request with the sheriff’s office, and he was taken into federal custody.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. Brandner noted that people arrested for drug offenses often conceal drugs and paraphernalia in their belongings during the intake process.. “The danger doesn’t stop on the street, and our jail staff must be prepared for his danger,” he said. “Our staff did a fantastic job identifying and responding to this life-threatening emergency. We are thankful that the deputy will be able to recover.”. Fox News Digital has reached out to ICE.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. A crazed man was shot by police after wielding a 13-inch kitchen knife outside a grocery store, the New York Police Department said.. “Once again, we are reminded of the dangers that our officers confront every time they put on their uniform. And this morning was no different,” Inspector Andrew Natiw, the executive officer of the Patrol Bureau of Manhattan North, said in a Monday morning news conference.. According to the NYPD, on Monday at 1:15 a.m., a 53-year-old got into a verbal fight with another person inside the City Fresh Market on East 120th Street and Third Avenue.. Multiple employees had to physically remove him from the store after he became “irate and disorderly,” the NYPD said. The man returned to the store a short time later with a large kitchen knife in his hand, banging on the window, according to police.. GOT A TIP?. WATCH: Knife-wielding man seen menacing grocery store employees. FOLLOW US ON X. Surveillance video captured the man wielding a 13-inch knife, yelling, pressing against the store’s glass, police said.. GET BREAKING NEWS BY EMAIL. Employees locked the door and called 911 just after 1:30 a.m.. When officers arrived, they told the man to drop the knife multiple times, but he “quickly advanced toward the officers with the knife extended out.”. CLICK HERE FOR MORE US NEWS. Authorities said that one of the officers shot the suspect and immediately requested EMS and rendered aid to the 53-year-old suspect.. The suspect, they said, was removed to Harlem Hospital where he went into surgery, and is in critical but stable condition.. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP. The NYPD declined to provide a name of the suspect. Police said the man has a history of prior arrests and was known to law enforcement.. Investigators recovered approximately seven shell casings at the scene. The incident remains under investigation.  

​NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!. An exclusive high-end private school in the Los Angeles area has been rocked by a lawsuit alleging that three water polo teammates, including a star player who is the son of a well-known film director, racially and sexually abused a teammate for years.. The civil lawsuit filed by Aidan Romain, who was a minor and water polo player at the swanky Harvard-Westlake School at the time of the alleged incidents, says he was repeatedly subjected to persistent racist and sexual misgivings at the hands of his teammates.. One teammate, Lucca Van Der Woude, is named in the lawsuit, along with the school itself, school president Richard B. Commons and boys water polo program head Jack Glover. Van Der Woude is the son of Thomas “Basti” Van Der Woude, a high-profile Hollywood assistant director of shows including “Fear the Walking Dead,” “Westworld” and current hit “Ballard.”. The younger Van Der Woude is considered a top Olympic prospect, and at one point was a prized recruit to play water polo at UCLA, one of the most elite college programs in the country. It is unclear what his present recruitment status is with the team, but the lawsuit against him alleges shocking behavior.. ELITE MASSACHUSETTS BOARDING SCHOOL ROCKED BY TEACHER SCANDAL AND INSTITUTIONAL COVER-UP ALLEGATIONS. “From August 2022 until February 2024, Plaintiff Aidan Romain (then a minor) was sexually assaulted, harassed, and humiliated primarily by three Harvard-Westlake water polo teammates – often in the presence of Harvard-Westlake agents and employees,” the lawsuit begins.. The lawsuit says that in 2022, Romain was the only freshman to make the varsity water polo team at Harvard-Westlake, but that abuse at the hands of Van Der Woude began during his very first practice, when the defendant allegedly “digitally penetrated” him underwater.. “The abuse was not spontaneous. It was part of a years-long culture in which violence and humiliation were normalized and facilitated through the school’s coaching staff and administration,” the suit says. “At Harvard-Westlake, sexualized misconduct was treated as ritual, and silence was the price of inclusion. Speaking out was betrayal and survival meant staying quiet.”. COLLEGE FRESHMAN DIED AFTER FRATERNITY HAZING LED TO ‘HORRIFIC’ ABUSE, FAMILY SAYS. According to the lawsuit, Romain was also subject to use of the N-word consistently.. In another “disturbing display of racism,” Van Der Woude and another teammate who is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit allegedly “began whipping Plaintiff with a rope and then an elastic band, making references to slavery as they demanded that Plaintiff ‘get back to work!’ while striking Plaintiff.”. Van Der Woude was arrested in 2024 and later admitted in juvenile court to “‘sexual penetration with a foreign object (digital penetration) against a minor’ as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors,” according to the suit. In February 2025, he was ordered to pay $50,0  

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