FBI DNA Expert Forced to Admit She Found a Third Person's DNA on the Charlie Kirk Rifle | Pt 12

The defense did something you almost never see at a preliminary hearing. It put the state's own DNA expert on the stand, and she found more than the state wanted. Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in September 2025. Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder in a capital case where the state is seeking the death penalty, and he is presumed innocent with no plea entered. This is the preliminary hearing, where a judge decides only whether there is enough to move the case forward, not whether anyone is guilty. Amanda Baker is a forensic examiner in the FBI's DNA casework unit at Quantico, and she signed the report the state is using to connect Robinson to the rifle towel and the screwdriver. Watch what happens when the defense walks her through her own work. She started with three people in this DNA, not two, and flagged a possible third contributor. Then investigators handed her the roommate as someone to expect, and her count dropped. The question underneath this whole session is the one that should worry anyone watching a death penalty case get built. If there was a third person on that weapon, where did they go. --- WATCH WITH JUSTICE 00:46 - 04:43 The FBI's own examiner takes the stand and reads her own words back to the court. Robinson is a possible contributor to the DNA on the rifle towel and the screwdriver, and I want you to notice she never says more than that. 10:00 - 12:18 She walks through the FBI's own rules, where an examiner is forbidden from claiming an absolute identification and forbidden from telling a court the testing is infallible. Watch how much of her own report those rules take off the table. 15:59 - 17:16 She admits she cannot tell the court how that DNA got onto an object, and she cannot tell the court when it was left there. In a case built on where things were found, sit with what that means. 18:27 - 20:22 Both the towel and the screwdriver were degraded, and the defense presses her on what breaking-down DNA does to the profile she built. 32:07 - 39:24 This is where it gets real. Both samples are mixtures, and the smaller contributor sits below the exact level federal scientists flagged as a reliability concern for this kind of software. 1:05:23 - 1:16:32 She explains how she first read three people in this DNA and looked hard at whether a third person was there. 1:16:32 - 1:19:39 The moment that matters most. She found signs of a third person, then dropped her count to two after investigators sent her the roommate and told her to expect his DNA. CASE BACKGROUND REPORT: https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/ut-... Tyler Robinson is charged with the assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University and faces the death penalty on seven counts. Complete case overview including the charges, the timeline, the key players, the evidence disclosed so far, and the constitutional fights over cameras, hearsay, and pretrial publicity that have defined this case before trial even started. PLAYLISTS AND RESOURCES Website: https://www.justiceisaprocess.com/cov... Full Trial Live Broadcasts:    • Charlie Kirk Assassination Trial: Full Tri...   No Breaks Edition:    • Charlie Kirk Assassination Trial: No Break...   Trial Analysis Podcast:    • Charlie Kirk Assassination Trial: Case Sto...   Key Moments and Testimony:    • Charlie Kirk Assassination Trial: Key Mome...   Subscribe for Daily Coverage:    / @justiceisaprocess   FAIR USE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE This content is produced under Fair Use (17 U.S.C. 107) for news reporting, criticism, and educational purposes. We provide transformative commentary on public court proceedings, advancing public understanding of the judicial process through timestamps, analysis, and educational context. #JusticeIsAProcess #CharlieKirkTrial #TylerRobinson