KOHBERGER: Unhappy with outcome

I am extremely disappointed in the prosecutor’s failure to obtain allocution from Kohberger. The victims’ families deserve to know what happened in this horrendous quadruple murder. 

In the plea bargain, they could’ve asked the judge to order him to stand up in open court, admit to the charges of murder and explain how the murders were committed. The prosecutors had a very winnable case for capital punishment. They had forensics and a mountain of circumstantial evidence. 

The defense attorneys did their job of lying, denying and demanding proof, and then, when that proof was presented, they challenged the proof. When every effort failed, the defense outmaneuvered the prosecutor in getting a plea bargain, saving their client from capital punishment, which was their goal from the beginning.

DENNIS HUBBS

Coeur d’Alene