Posted on 06/27/2023 7:15:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
University of Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger has “no connection” to the victims, his defense team insisted in court documents filed ahead of the former graduate student’s hearing on Tuesday.
Investigators in the high-profile case failed to disclose the precise means by which they identified Kohberger, 28, as the primary suspect in the Nov. 13 stabbing spree that killed Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20, Kohberger’s defense alleges in the June 22 filing, according to Fox News Digital.
“It remains unclear what the police first relied on in focusing their investigation on Mr. Kohberger,” the argument states.
“There is no connection between Mr. Kohberger and the victims.”
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He was stalking them for weeks. His DNA is on the knife sheath left at the scene. They have his cell phone signal triangulating from that location. At this point the big question will be if a jury will give him the death penalty.
Sounds like the monster successfully lied to his lawyers... or everyone’s playing stupid.
So what? People randomly murder people they have no connection to all time. That is why most murders are never solved.
If the local two state media coverage is any indicator, the dude will not find a jury willing to allow him to live. Had he done the crime 10 miles west in the Soviet of Washington, this would be a different story.
This state wouldn’t execute two of the most prolific serial killers in America not named Clinton when they had them dead to rights. Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgeway.
LOL - is Bryan going to blame his Father?
The only unanswered question - was the knife sheath left there accidentally or on purpose?
This is just a defense attorney sowing confusion and doubt.
It does not matter whether he was previously connected to the victims, whether he was stalking them, or whether it was a random pick at the last moment.
The prosecution has DNA evidence from the victim's blood on clothes and other personal belongings of the accused. They also reportedly have the DNA of the accused at the murder scene. They have video recordings which appear to show the accused had been stalking two of the victims.
The only thing the defense attorney can do now is try to suppress all that evidence.
"When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. When the law and the facts are against you, pound on the table". (Advice from an experienced lawyer, not mine)
"Beyond reasonable doubt", the accused killed all of the victims.
Based on similarities with earlier, unsolved murders, this may have not been his first killing session either.
If anyone wants to know why he and dad took the long scenic route from his Washington apartment to home in PA for Christmas, check out google maps Ted Bundy Timeline. He knew it might be his last hurrah so drove the route of Bundy’s victims.
I had no idea…sick…
Creating confusion and doubt is what all defense teams are hired to do.
IMO, they got the right guy. He stalked them. He did it and left the sheath with DNA. He went back to the scene of the crime at 9 am the next morning. He acted different in class and wouldn’t speak about the killings. He cleaned his car. He drove Ted Bundy’s victims’ sight seeing route on his way home for Christmas (see the link in my previous post). He was caught and arrested by LE separating his trash with gloved hands.
The defense is doing their job and that is to cast suspicions on everyone but their client and force the prosecution to prove that the defendant was at the scene of the crime at the exact time the murder took place.
DNA, cell phone records AND his car was seen near the scene.
Why would the original source of what led the police to him be of any import? It sounds like the defense is grasping at straws.
In Idaho, when the prosecution seeks the death penalty, the sentence is decided by the jury and must be unanimous. In case of a hung jury during the penalty phase of the trial, a life sentence is issued, even if a single juror opposed death (there is no retrial).
Being a liberal college area, I would not be surprised if one or two jurors in Latah County would vote against the death penalty.
“So what? People randomly murder people they have no connection to all time.”
Exactly right. That is the very definition of non sequitur.
This is a misdirect, trying to say that if he didn't have a connection then he didn't murder them, apples and oranges.
Lawyers are allowed to….no….required to lie for their clients. I have little respect for lawyers
“He did it and left the sheath with DNA.”
The defense will go with, why is it that my client’s DNA is only found on the sheath and not any item that is permanently attached to the house?
It could be that my client lost the sheath and a person with access to the house found it.
Maybe the sheath was planted.
Maybe my client gave the sheath to Goodwill and someone with access to the house bought the sheath at Goodwill.
Maybe my client dropped the sheath at the park and the dog that lives in the house grabbed it as it were a dog toy and carried it home.
The defense seems to be claiming that the use of genetic databases are not admissible (or at least have not been turned over to them), and if that is how they first became aware of Kohberger as a suspect, it would mean all evidence gathered after that would also be inadmissible. I don't know if that's true, but on something as important as this, the prosecution better have all their ducks in a row.
According to the coroner, one of the victims, one of the two girls in the upstairs room, seems to have been targeted and was viciously brutalized far more than the others - that particular victim’s father also reported this in a news conference.
An FBI profiler on Megan Kelly’s show said there most likely was a connection with this particular victim and the killer - most likely online, a rejection of some type - and this will eventually be brought to light.
Hard to believe this was random.
Get a rope ready for Killberger
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