Idaho prosecutors want to block Bryan Kohberger from the defense ‘alternative perpetrators’
Police found blood on the handrail in the house of four victims of murder in Idah and more on the glove outside.
The samples came from two unidentified but different men. Prosecutors say that these samples should not be played at trial if the defense intends to claim to suggest that a mysterious man was stabbing underground to death, not the defendant.
Prosecutors from Idah ask the judge Boise to block Bryan Kohberger’s Defense against arguing the “alternative perpetrator” theory, unless it can prove that it is relevant in the case of the state rules of evidence.
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Bryan Kohberger appeared in court in Moscow, Idaho, on Thursday, October 26, 2023, Kohberger appeared in court in an attempt to cancel his accusation of a large jury jury for the killings of four students in 2022. (Kai eiselein/pool)
Kohberger was accused of killing four University of Idah Students in a house with six bedrooms on King Road, just a few steps from campus. The victims have been known to have hosted parties, some of which resulted in police calls and video by Bodycam.
These were three housewives – Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21 and Xana Kernodle, 20 – and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, 20, who lived in the Sigma Chi fraternity about 200 meters, but spent the night. All four were killed by multiple stab wounds.
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Investigators have argued that unidentified blood samples of two unknown males are not important how much a knife sheath found in Mogen’s body. Prosecutors claim he had Kohberger’s DNA for shooting. She was killed next to Goncalves.
Madison Mogen, top left, smiled at her best friends Kaylee Goncalves on his shoulders, as they refer to Ethan Chapin, Xan Kernodle and two other housewives in the last Instagram of Goncalves, they shared the day before four students were stabbing to death. (@Kayleegonuncalves/Instagram)
“The state respects that the defendant should prevent or argue the alternative evidence of the perpetrator without filling up the doors of relevance and acceptability first [Idaho Rules of Evidence] 401, 402 and 403, “Prosecutor’s lawyer Latah Bill Thompson wrote in a court in a report last week announced on Tuesday.
These rules manage the relevance and acceptability of the evidence.
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The guard parked in front of 1122 King Road on December 11, 2022, four weeks after four students were jumped to death. The home was later demolished. (Michael Ruiz/Fox News Digital)
Thompson cited the decision of the Supreme Court in Idah that found: “If the defendant gives evidence that only harder to deceive the jury that the other person has committed the crime or evidence are not relevant because he cannot make the defendant’s participation more likely or less likely, then within the decision of the first instance court that the evidence of unacceptable. “
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“The conclusion itself that the other person could have committed a crime, most likely, would not be relevant.”
However, with sources Two blood samples At stake, the defender Anne Taylor told the District of Ada Steven Hippler at a hearing last month that it can mean that Kohberger, 30, was not associated with a crime at all.
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Defender Anne Taylor visits the King Road crime scene on January 3, 2023. The house was the scene of a four -time murder in November 2022, and the victims were students at the University of Idah. (Derek shook for Fox News Digital)
Edwina Elcox, a veteran based in Boise, followed by the case, predicted that the defense would use these evidence that they “blur the waters” and try to show a reasonable doubt of the trial.
Kohberger’s long -awaited trial should start on August 11.
He could face the death penalty if convicted.
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Before he was approved by a change in the place, Latah District Judge John Judge went guilty on behalf of Kohberger in his altercation in May 2023.
