Attorneys defending the man accused of killing graduate student Anat Kimchi downtown in 2021 argued in court Monday that facial recognition technology used to identify him isn’t reliable and may have tainted the case.

They called for the pretrial release of Tony Robinson, 45, who has been charged in the unprovoked stabbing at Wacker Drive and Van Buren Street on June 19, 2021.

Cook County Circuit Judge John F. Lyke ruled that Robinson — who is also accused of attacking two other women in the South Loop in the days before Kimchi’s killing — still poses a risk to the community and needs to stay locked up.

“These offenses are highly violent,” Lyke said. He added that, although Robinson is presumed innocent, earlier testimony showed he posed “a real and present threat.”

The case was one of

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