The Brief
- Prosecutors and attorneys for a man charged in the killings of four University of Idaho students in 2022 are set to argue some of the final ground rules they want for Bryan Kohberger’s trial.
- The two-day hearing is set to begin Wednesday. Hundreds of pages of motions have been filed by attorneys on both sides of the case.
- Many of them are focused on what evidence can be presented to jurors, like a 911 call recording or a selfie photo that prosecutors say Kohberger took just hours after the killings occurred.
BOISE, Idaho – Prosecutors and attorneys for a man charged in the killings of four University of Idaho students in 2022 will argue some of the final ground rules they want for Bryan Kohberger’s trial in a two-day hearing set to begin Wednesday morning.
The backstory:
Kohberger, 30, is accused in the stabbing deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves at a rental home near campus in Moscow, Idaho. Prosecutors say the four were killed in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, and their bodies were discovered later that day.
Kohberger, then a criminal justice graduate student at Washington State University, was arrested in Pennsylvania weeks after the killings. Investigators said they matched his DNA to genetic material recovered from a knife sheath found at the crime scene.
Bryan Kohberger, accused of murder, arrives for a hearing on cameras in the courtroom in Latah County District Court on September 13, 2023 in Moscow, Idaho. (Ted S. Warren-Pool/Getty Images)…