Latest developments in the process on the Idaho student murders

Latest developments in the process on the Idaho student murders

A judge has decided that the public prosecutor's office against Bryan Kohberger, the accused of four students from the university Idaho from 2022, can continue to follow.

developments in the Kohberger case

The decision of the judge in Idaho to reject applications from the defense to the death penalty is one of the latest developments before the process scheduled in June 2025.

It was a long and stony path since the fatal attack on the four students - Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen - which were only stabbed in a residential building in a residential building in a residential building in Moscow, Idaho.

Bryan Kohberger and the accusations

Kohberger, a doctoral student of criminology at Washington State University, was arrested on December 30, 2022 in his home state of Pennsylvania. He was raised four murder plants; a Non- Schuldig-plädoy was inserted in his name in May 2023 and his lawyers have specified that the 29 year old intends to present an alibi as part of his defense.

The Progress of the procedure was slowed down by a number of preliminary processes and hearings that frustrated both the family as well as the victims. The hearings can be roughly divided into three main categories. The first affects the access of the defense to evidence, especially such as the public prosecutor's office Forensic genetic Genealogy used for falling. The second group of hearings deals with Kohbergers for his innocence. Third, there were several hearings that deal with a , which is limited to what the parties can speak publicly about the case.

• 9. June 2023 : A coalition of media organizations and the family of one came to court to was imposed.
• 23. June 2023 : Latah County Richter John Judge rejected both applications, but issued a revised welding command that allows the parties to discuss topics that are not associated with a "considerable probability of a material impairment or influence on the exit of the case".
• 2. August 2023 : Kohberger's lawyers said that they would use a alibi defense The exact location of her client could not define in the night of the murders, since he "drove in the late night hours and early in the morning".
• 26. October 2023 : The judge argued that there was a mistake in the instructions of the Grand jury.

The defense of Kohberger in September

ongoing legal disputes

On November 15, 2024, Kohberger's defense team again submitted 13 applications to suppress evidence that was received by several searching commands. The information, including mobile phone records, internet data and searches of his car and the apartment of his parents, raised constitutional questions and were carried out by Forensic genealogy obtained so his team.

In the event that these applications are no longer important, the court has not yet made a final decision.

CNN report by Jean Casarez, Jim Sciutto, Taylor Romine, Veronica Miracle, Jeffrey Kopp, Brammhi Balarajan, Cheri Mossburg and Cindy von Quednow.