A decide in Idaho denied a movement from Bryan Kohberger’s protection group asking to take away the death penalty as a possible punishment if he is discovered responsible.
Kohberger is charged with first-degree homicide within the deaths of 4 college students on the University of Idaho, together with Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; and Ethan Chapin, 20. The previous pupil on the College of Washington was additionally charged with one felony depend of housebreaking.
Throughout a listening to on April 9, Kohberger’s protection group introduced the movement to strike the loss of life penalty, arguing that discovery produced by prosecutors has been each voluminous and unorganized. Kohberger argued this meant he was unable to meaningfully evaluate and examine the proof in preparation for trial, which is at the moment scheduled to start in August.
Choose Steven Hippler wrote in his order on Tuesday that Kohberger’s complaints concerning the quantity of discovery produced “ring hole.”
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Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for his arraignment listening to in Latah County District Courtroom, Might 22, 2023 in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger is accused of killing 4 College of Idaho college students in November 2022. (Zach Wilkinson-Pool/Getty Pictures)
“[Kohberger] has been receiving discovery in the identical method for over two years,” Hippler wrote. “[Kohberger] has not sought further sources…to rent further employees to evaluate discovery or get hold of litigation doc management software program to assist arrange and kind the proof. His lead counsel insisted that she be allowed to tackle a second high-profile capital case regardless of the voluminous discovery on this case.”
Hippler additionally wrote that Kohberger’s lawyer, Anne Taylor, “indicated that her observe is to personally evaluate all the invention herself, quite than depend on associates and employees to evaluate supplies to chop via the much less related data and level to what supplies want evaluate by lead counsel.”
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Bryan Kohberger, accused of homicide, arrives for a listening to on cameras within the courtroom in Latah County District Courtroom on September 13, 2023 in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger, a former criminology PhD pupil, was indicted earlier this yr within the November 2022 killings of Madison Mogen, 21; Kaylee Goncalves, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20; and Ethan Chapin, 20, in an off-campus condo close to the College of Idaho. (Ted S. Warren-Pool/Getty Pictures)
“These actions will not be indicative of an overburdened protection group,” Hippler wrote of the movement.
Addressing one of many arguments from Kohberger’s protection group that prosecutors “larded its manufacturing with solely irrelevant paperwork,” Hippler mentioned there’s “no proof” of that occurring.
Timeline of Nov. 13, 2022:
- 4:00 AM: Suspect arrives at home
- Between 4 and 4:17: Time of murders
- 4:19: Roommate calls 3 victims, nobody solutions
- 4:22 to 4:24: Surviving roommates textual content one another from inside home
- 4:27: Roommate calls victims once more, nobody solutions
- 4:32: Roommate texts Goncalves ‘Pls reply’
- 10:23: Surviving roommate texts victims, nobody solutions
- 11:39: Roommate calls her father
- 12:00 PM.: 911 name positioned from roommate’s telephone
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Madison Mogen, high left, smiles on the shoulders of her finest pal, Kaylee Goncalves, as they pose with Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and two different housemates in Goncalves’ closing Instagram submit, shared the day earlier than the 4 college students had been stabbed to loss of life. (@kayleegoncalves/Instagram)
Hippler’s determination comes lower than per week after he denied a unique movement to take away the loss of life penalty. Kohberger’s defense team beforehand argued that the defendant’s autism analysis ought to preclude him from the loss of life penalty.
Fox Information’ Alexandra Koch and Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.
