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Defence lawyers for accused U.S. university student killer Bryan Kohberger reportedly want prosecutors to turn over a key piece of evidence in discovery.
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The Criminology Ph.D. student-turned quadruple murder suspect has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary in connection with a Nov. 13, 2022, quadruple stabbing at an off-campus house next to the University of Idaho.
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Maddi Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, died in the quadruple stabbing.
Kohberger’s defence wants the full surveillance video that allegedly places Kohberger’s white Hyundai Elantra near the crime scene, Fox Digital News reported.
“The public needs to know that they’ve withheld the audio,” said Anne Taylor, the Kootenai County public defender and Kohberger’s lead defence attorney.
But defence claims that prosecutors were dragging their feet on discovery are “utter nonsense,” said Latah County Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson.
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It could just be a strategic move to help the defence have the trial moved out of Latah County, where the alleged murders took place, to a larger jurisdiction, according to David Gelman, a New Jersey-based defence attorney and former prosecutor.
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He said he agreed with Taylor that prosecutors should not have handed over an edited video that allegedly ties Kohberger’s car to the crime scene.
“They are trying to make the prosecutor out to be hiding evidence and going after an innocent guy,” he told Fox News Digital.
Court documents say police found a knife sheath under Mogen’s body with Kohberger’s DNA and traced his movements the night of the murders with phone pings off cell towers and surveillance video of his car.
Not guilty pleas on Kohberger’s behalf were entered to all counts at his May 23, 2023 arraignment.
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