Bryan Kohberger Defense claims that the diagnosis of autism should take off the death penalty from the table

Bryan Kohberger has autism, according to the Defense Attorney General, who claims that the diagnosis means that he should not face the possibility of a death penalty if he was convicted of killing a group of students of the University of Idah who were killed in an invasion at the home at 4am in November 2022.

“Bryan C. KohbergerThrough his lawyers recorded … this is transferred to this court to break into his case a death sentence as the possibility of imposing a sentence, because the disorder of the Mr. Kohberger Autism spectrum (ASD) reduces its guilt, negates more impatient and scary capital, and has declared him a necessary risk of declaring a negative risk of 28.

She claimed that repetitive behaviors such as swinging in the place or Kohberger’s failure in contact with the eyes of the jurors would be understood as “strange, out of control, and even disrespecting such a festive procedure” or interpreted as guilt or shame. She said that her client was questioned by Dr. Rachel Orr, who revealed that Kohberger’s autism had a “significant impact on his daily life.”

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“ASD Mr. Kohberger is manifested in many of these very harmful but completely inadvertent mannerism,” Taylor wrote. “Dr. Orr noticed that he was subtly swinging his upper torso, especially while dealing with a cognitive task or listening to someone else – both are almost sure it will happen during his trial.”

Kohberger, 30, studied a doctorate. in criminology at Washington State University at the time of the crime.

He is charged with a carefully planned attack that left four students of the dead on University of IdahJust 10 miles away. There were 21-year-old Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves friends, their 20-year-old hostess Xan Kernodle and her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, also 20.

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Two other young women in the house survived the massacre, including the one who told the police that she had seen a masked man with “thunderstorms” leaving the house, perhaps wearing a vacuum.

Taylor claimed that Kohberger’s autism resulted in “extreme non -inflexibility” and interferes with him to participate in his Defense on trial.

“Mr. Kohberger shows an extremely rigid opinion, persists on certain topics, processes information based on meals, fights for planning in advance and shows a small insight into his own behavior and emotions,” she wrote.

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She claimed that her client’s communication skills were so inappropriate to fight to help her own defense and that his lack of social consciousness “was likely to create an unjustified impression of lack of remorse” before the jurors.

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She also renewed her criticism for widespread media reporting on the case, claiming that reporting was about “brutal and shocking” murder could surpass autism as a mitigating factor in imposing a sentence, if convicted, in the heads of the jurors.

Separately, Taylor asked the court to prohibit prosecutors to use the diagnosis as a worse factor.

“Because of his autism, others can see Bryan as not recognizing social signs, continuing to talk to others when the conversation naturally ended up, overly focused on the subject or hobby of interest or repeatedly discussing the same topic, using a complex vocabulary or a seemingly self-absorbed,” she wrote. “Bryan’s autism is accompanied by obsessive-compulsiveness and eating disorder.”

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According to legal experts, the application is a long shooting. Judge Steven Hippler has already rejected the previous defense proposal to achieve the intention of the prosecution to seek a death sentence.

“Autism can alleviate during the criminal phase of trial, but autism will not prevent the application of the death penalty,” said Matthew Mangino, former District prosecutor In Lawrence district, Pennsylvania and an expert in the death penalty.

Under the current precedent, the death penalty would be banned against minors and people who are intellectually disabled, he said. Autism is not an intellectual disability.

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“Not even a strong mental illness” would spare the defendant in a similar case, he said. In addition, the prosecutors noticed in the court submissions that the Idaho law had no defense of madness or allows the mental state to be defense against the charges.

In their own appointment, the prosecutor asked the judge to block the skilled testimony of Kohbberger’s neuropsychological and psychiatric assessment.

“Kohberger’s proposal is a brave effort of his defense team that the death penalty is removed from the table, however successful,” said Edwina Elcox, a veteran based in Boise whose past clients include Lori Vallow. “The claim that Kohberger’s autism disorder reduces his guilt will not be sufficient to achieve the death penalty in Idah, a state that re -established the execution of the firing of the 2023 Detachment.”

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The trial will begin at Boise on August 11 after years of delay and change of place.

Latah District Judge John Judge entered the name of Kohberger in his altercation in May 2023 on behalf of Kohberger.