Defense lawyers’ defense defenses in Idaho will claim that evidence have been planted, prosecutors say

Say the prosecutors Bryan Kohberger’s defense team

He will argue at his murder process that someone else could have planted a Kohberger’s DNA knife sheath at the home where four students of the University of Idaho were killed in 2022.

The Latah County Prosecutor, Bill Thompson, submitted the application in a motion filed this week.

“Instead of challenging the conclusion that the DNA on the knife’s sheath belonged to the defendant, the defense experts reveal that the defense intends to argue the DNA on the knife’s sheath does not prove that the defendant was ever at the place of the crime, and the knife’s sheath could have been planted.”

Many of the judicial documents that detail the plans of both parties for expert witnesses have been sealed, so it is not possible to compare the characterization by Thompson of the defense plans against their own defense recordings.

Kohberger is accused of Four charges of crime

In the death of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, students who were killed in the early morning on November 13, 2022, at a rental house near their campus in Moscow, Idaho.

According to the judicial documents published last week. Two survivors room colleagues they sent each other

That morning, about a man masked in the house, a roommate sent a message after 4 in the morning, on November 13, 2022, that they “collapse” about the fact that he could see a man in the house bearing what seemed to be a ski mask. The messages also said that the roommate tried to call their other roommates, but no one answered their phones.

When asked to enter a plea last year, Kohberger was silent, which caused a judge to introduce a plea that is not dealing with his name. Prosecutors said they would request the death penalty if Kohberger is convicted.

Prosecutors said they were suitable with the “Touch DNA” found on a knife sheath near one of Kohberger’s DNA victims using IgG genetic genealogy. Defense lawyer Anne Taylor pushed to throw in the genetic investigation genealogy, but the 4th district judge Steven Hippler denied this request

last month.

However, prosecutors say they do not intend to refer to IgG evidence during the trial and will tell the jurors that a “peak” has taken to Kohberger as a suspect.

Kohberger’s process is scheduled Starts on August 11

and expects to last more than three months.

A lot of new movements were submitted before the process, including a sealed defense motion to take Death punishment

Outside the table that quoted the autism spectrum disorder. Other sealed movements include one if “psychopath” or “sociopath” terms It can be used during the trial and one from prosecutors about the presence of immediate family members in the courtroom during the trial.

Last November, Kristi and Steve Goncalves, the parents of Kaylee Goncalves, said the details of the case show Death punishment

It is worth it.

“You have four victims, all in a house – this is more than enough,” said Steve Goncalves.

Kristi Goncalves said she was talking to the forensics and knows what happened to her daughter.

“If he did something as he did to our daughter to others, then he deserves to die,” she said.

Steve Goncalves said “48 hours”

Last year, “there is evidence to show that she was awake and tried to get out of this situation”, saying “she was caught” depending on how the bed was set up.