Judge rebukes Christopher Ballard for talking to media but declines defense’s request to take death penalty off tableA Utah judge held a prosecutor in contempt on Friday for speaking to the media about the murder case against the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, but did not grant the defense a ttorney’s request to bar the death penalty as punishment in the case.Defense attorneys for Tyler James Robinson, the Utah man who allegedly shot Kirk, a conservative political activist, last September, argued in a March court filing that deputy Utah county attorney Christopher Ballard had violated a pre-trial media gag order. Continue reading... ...read more read less