Posted on 05/22/2023 11:32:17 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A judge on Monday entered not guilty pleas for the man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death last year.
Bryan Kohberger, 28, has been charged with burglary and four counts of first-degree murder in connection with the November 2022 deaths. He declined to enter pleas on his own, and the judge in Latah County District Court entered them on his behalf.
Kohberger, who was a graduate student studying criminology at Washington State University at the time of the killings, was arrested and charged last year and indicted by a grand jury last week.
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No case is slam dunk
He has the crazy eyes.
If Kohberger is innocent why doesn't he tell the judge that?
Kohberger should be shouting out that he's innocent
of committing those horrible murders if he's innocent.
Kohburger doesn’t want a speedy trial but the judge has ordered one pretty quick thanks.
Out of legal curiosity, if the accused refuses to enter a plea, could a judge enter a plea of guilty in the accused’s stead?
Perhaps some attorney can respond to this but is there a strategic reason why? Obviously, the death penalty looms if he's found guilty, so I would assume that the defense needs to prepare for that eventuality and preserve some negotiation room to try for a plea bargain to get the death penalty off the table.
How many other murders has he committed? Hard to believe this one was his first.
Another story says he installed security cameras in a female student’s home when she told him she found evidence of a break-in. Now, police believe he might’ve been the one to break in, and then he might’ve hacked into the security cameras using the woman’s wi-fi information.
“Out of legal curiosity, if the accused refuses to enter a plea, could a judge enter a plea of guilty in the accused’s stead?”
No.
From what I heard, "standing silent" is akin to entering verbal non-guilty pleas.
Sounds like he understands the 5th Amendment and is taking his lawyer’s advice.
If the state starts talking death penalty he’ll change that tune real quick.
I believe they have some time, perhaps months, to say whether they will be seeking the death penalty.
Yeah it’s still early and depends on how strong the state feels about the evidence.
Not sure.
I really get the feeling that a lot has been left out of the news reports.
A clearer picture might emerge at trial.
I just find it interesting how many people were "sure" they knew what had happened. And how they seem to have been all wrong.
Will he choose M1 Garand or M1 Carbine for instrument of execution?
“Idaho will become the fifth state to authorize the firing squad as a method of execution and may become the first state to mandatorily impose it on a death row prisoner since 1976. Idaho’s Governor Brad Little signed HB 186 into law on March 24, 2023, and it goes into effect on July 1. The law gives the director of the Idaho Department of Correction up to five days after a death warrant is issued to determine if lethal injection is available. If it is declared unavailable, the execution will be performed by firing squad.”
I can hear it now:
“due to supply chain issues we’re unable to obtain drugs for lethal injection........but we got plenty of bullets!” 😏
I’m an old guy who’s always followed crime news and I cannot recall any other case where an individual was accused of killing four people with a knife in one incident.
How many shooters in a “firing squad”?
The night stalker might have - at least multiple killings in a single home if not four. In this case the victims were probably asleep after a night of drinking. Knife is stealthy as it won't wake up others in the home allowing the murderer to go from room to room. If I recall, the killer snuck in from an upper floor entrance/window... went on his murder spree... then one of the housemates downstairs was awake and the sound of her locking the privy door might have scared him away from even more carnage.
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