More than 170 legal filings with considerable implications for trial in the University of Idaho student homicides case are set to near their resolution as defendant Bryan Kohberger returns to the courtroom Wednesday.
Since February, the prosecution and defense have traded more than 1,000 pages of court records over a variety of evidence. Each side has postured to limit the way certain details may be presented to a jury, while ensuring their own elements, including data and witness testimony, make the cut.
Judge Steven Hippler has scheduled oral arguments that could extend into Thursday to hear final justification for which evidence to include. His decisions on the so-called motions in limine could prove to be the difference for a conviction at Kohberger’s summer capital murder trial…