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

Boise, Idaho – Prosecutors say that Bryan Kohberger’s defense team will argue in his trial for murder that someone else could have planted a knife pod with Kohberger’s DNA in the house where four The students of the Idaho University 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.

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Kohberger 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 their 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.

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Prosecutors have said that they coincided with the “tactile DNA” found in a knife sheath near one of the victims to DNA taken from Kohberger using the genetic genetic genetics or 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 start on August 11 and is expected to last more than three months.