Defense for Bryan Kohberger maintains push to toss lead evidence from murder trial
Bryan Kohberger, left, is charged with killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022. Led by attorney Anne Taylor, his defense wants several pieces of state evidence withheld from his murder trial next summer. August Frank Lewiston Tribune / Pool
Ahead of an upcoming January court date, Bryan Kohberger’s attorneys made their final written arguments for excluding key pieces of evidence from the Idaho murder suspect’s trial next summer.
In the latest filings, the defense reasserted its prior allegations to try to justify to the judge why he should strike a multitude of state evidence in the high-profile case involving the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. Across 10 briefs, two of which are sealed, Kohberger’s attorneys renewed claims of police misconduct to obtain warrants for various evidence, that some warrants lacked legally required specificity and that their client’s constitutional rights were violated during the investigation.
The defense submitted the new response filings earlier this month, but they were not released through a public Idaho courts website until Tuesday. The court hearing on the issue before Ada County District Judge Steven Hippler is scheduled for Jan. 23.
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