Defense for Bryan Kohberger requests delaying Idaho student murder trial
Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students, is escorted into court for a hearing in Latah County District Court, Sept. 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, Pool, File)
Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students, asked the presiding judge to postpone the long-awaited murder trial this summer in Boise, citing disclosure of previously unreleased case details that may have violated the court’s gag order earlier this month in an episode of NBC’s “Dateline.”
Led by attorney Anne Taylor, Kohberger’s public defense team filed Tuesday for the delay, just two months before the scheduled start of jury selection to kick off the trial. The defense’s request, in a 40-page brief that posted to a state courts website Wednesday afternoon, came less than a week after Judge Steven Hippler invited a formal request to consider appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the source of the leaked information.
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