Posted on 08/24/2023 8:18:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Bryan Kohberger—the man charged in the gruesome homicides of four University of Idaho students last November—waived his right to a speedy trial during an appearance in Latah County Court on Wednesday. Asked by the judge if he was comfortable waiving this right, Kohberger responded, “Absolutely.” As a result, Kohberger’s trial, which was initially set to begin on Oct. 2, is now postponed indefinitely.
In May, Kohberger was indicted by a jury on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary and was arraigned shortly after. At his arraignment, he didn’t enter a plea, requiring the judge to plead not guilty on his behalf. In Idaho, criminal defendants must receive a trial date within six months of their arraignment unless they choose to waive this right, which Kohberger did on Wednesday. According to CBS, a new trial date will be set at hi next hearing scheduled for Sept. 1, but the Daily Beast notes this new date could actually be years from now.
Just last week, Taylor argued that prosecutors were withholding information about DNA found at the crime scene and questioned the DNA found on a knife sheath at the crime scene that connected Kohberger to the killings. Kohberger himself claimed last month that the sheath was planted by police. “They have provided full DNA discovery for the sheath, the knife sheath, but not the other three unidentified male DNA samples,” Taylor told the judge on Wednesday.
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It sounds like he’s trying to stretch it out for the enjoyment of it. On the plus side, it gives the prosecution more time to put the case together.
A posse needs to hang him at high noon.
Do you think the prosecution needs that time?
Probably not, but it’s always good going in with the strongest possible hand you can create.
Waiving the right to speedy trial is what most every defense lawyer would advise in such a case.
Yes.
From my understanding you cannot actually have a speedy trial in a capital case. The prosecution would have to take the death penalty off the table to make a speedy trail a possibility. This SOB is getting the best defense attorney’s the state has. The lead attorney is using every legal means to get the DNA tossed. She knows this guy butchered those girls and she trying to use technicalities to get him off.
Is this so he can push his date with the electric chair a little further down the road, or what is the legal tactic with waiving your right to a speedy trial?
If you are going to do life or death row in a state prison, why not put that off as long as possible?
You want to build a defense, hold lots of depositions, examine and reexamine the evidence, exhaust discovery, make the prosecutor work and work and just maybe the evidence gets old or witnesses for the prosecution forget details and perhaps the prosecutor screws up along the way. If the prosecutor screws up, they may even violate your rights and have to settle for reduced charges.
Delay, delay, delay.
I think she is a private attorney not a public defender.
Kohberger has a public defender. No one on God’s green earth can afford the private attorney Kohberger would need.
No she’s working the case as a public defender. Somehow this guy got the most capable one in the state. Somehow.
Can they not give him one anyway? Who decides when the trial is to occur?
IANAL ...
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