Prosecutors say that Kohberger’s defense will argue that evidence was planted in the case of murders of Idaho students

Boise, Idaho (AP) – Prosecutors say Bryan Kohberger’s The defense team will argue in their trial for murder that someone else could have planted a knife pod with Kohberger’s DNA in the house where Four students from the Idaho University They were killed in 2022.

Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson made the claim in a motion filed in the case this week.

“Instead of challenging the conclusion that the DNA in the knife pod belonged to the defendant, the expert revelations of the defense reveal that the defense plans to argue that the DNA in the knife sheath does not prove that the defendant was once at the crime scene and that the dod of the knife itself could have been planted by the true perpetrator,” Thompson wrote.

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 of Thompson of the defense plans with the judicial presentations of the defense team themselves.

Kohberger He is accused of four positions of murder in the death of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, students who were Killed early in the morning of November 13, 2022, in a rental house near his campus in Moscow, Idaho.

When he was asked to enter a supplication last year, Kohberger was silent, which led a judge to enter a plea without stopping in his name. Prosecutors have said they will look for the death penalty if Kohberger is convicted.

Prosecutors have said that they coincided with the “tactile DNA” found in a knife sheath near one of the victims to the DNA taken from Kohberger using GENETICAL RESEARCH GENEALOGor IgG techniques. The defending lawyer Anne Taylor pressed so that the genetic genetic genetics of investigation would expel the case, but the judge of 4th district Steven Hipler denied that request last month.

Even so, prosecutors say they do not intend to refer to the evidence of IgG during the trial and, on the other hand, will tell the jurors that a “advice” took them to Kohberger as suspicious.

Kohberger’s trial is scheduled to begin August 11 And it is expected to last more than three months.