# The Trial Within the Trial - The Tyler Robinson Preliminary Hearing Explained

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Podcast: [Hawk Podcasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hawk-podcasts-6751455)
Published: 2026-07-09T21:30:11+00:00
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## Resource

A lot of people online are calling this the Charlie Kirk trial, but as Hawk points out, it is not. Day four of Tyler Robinson's preliminary hearing is underway in a Utah state courtroom, and Hawk, a former criminal defense attorney, uses courtroom clips to explain what a preliminary hearing actually is: the state's chance to show probable cause, and the defense's chance to preview the evidence and fight to exclude parts of it before any trial.

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