An attorney for a 22-year-old man charged in the United States with killing right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has asked a judge for more time to review the large amount of evidence in the case before deciding if the defence would seek a preliminary hearing.

“It’s my understanding there is going to be massive amounts of digital [evidence] that is going to be coming,” Kathryn Nester, a lawyer for Tyler Robinson , told the court on Monday.

A preliminary hearing would determine if there is enough evidence against Robinson to go forward with a trial. Prosecutors in the US state of Utah have charged Robinson with aggravated murder and plan to seek the death penalty.

The hearing took place in Provo, just a few miles from the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, where many students are sti

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