Tyler Robinson’s defense attorneys have asked a judge to allow the 22-year-old, accused of killing political activist Charlie Kirk in Orem, to attend in-person court hearings unshackled and in plain clothes, instead of in the jailhouse garb he wore during his first virtual appearance.

His attorneys argued that their requests were “necessary to maintain the presumption of innocence, to protect Mr. Robinson’s rights to a fair and impartial trial, and to maintain courtroom decorum and dignity,” according to a motion they filed Thursday in Utah’s 4th District Court.

“In the modern age of ubiquitous internet access and unrelenting media attention to high-profile criminal cases,” the attorneys wrote, “the prejudicial effect of a criminal defendant appearing in shackles, jail attire, and bullet

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