Bryan Kohberger ’s legal team has filed some 160 pages of court documents challenging a wide selection of crucial evidence in the Idaho murders trial and calling for it to be thrown out.
Kohberger, a former Washington State University criminology student, is accused of murdering four University of Idaho students at their off-campus home in November 2022.
He was arrested around six weeks later and charged with the murders of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, but has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Filings made on November 14, and seen by The Independent, call for the suppression of evidence including the 29-year-old’s DNA , which lawyers claim was “gathered illegally by law enforcement.”
Other evidence being challenged includes the contents of Kohberger’s digital history on his Amazon , Google , Apple iCloud and AT&T phone accounts, and evidence obtained from his apartment and vehicle.
Authorities have said Kohberger’s DNA was found on a Ka-Bar knife sheath under Mogen’s body. DNA was later matched to Kohberger through a cheek swab.