Pivotal hearings set as Kohberger defense tries to nix key evidence in murder trial
Bryan Kohberger listens to proceedings during a pretrial hearing Friday at the Latah County Courthouse in Moscow. AUGUST FRANK Lewiston Tribune / Pool
In hearings this week that will likely set the table for his summer murder trial, Bryan Kohberger and his attorneys will return to the courtroom for the first time in more than two months to argue for excluding a host of evidence.
Since November, the defense and prosecution have traded legal briefs over the disputed evidence in the University of Idaho student homicides case. The pieces the defense wants suppressed include: DNA taken from Kohberger that the state says matches some from the crime scene in Moscow where the four college students were killed; every item seized from his college apartment, car and parents’ Pennsylvania home; and all the information from his cellphone and online footprint obtained through search warrants.
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