Attorneys for Bryan Kohberger, the person accused of fatally stabbing 4 College of Idaho college students in 2022, plan to make use of cellular phone tower knowledge to indicate he was not on the location the place the murders occurred, in accordance with a brand new court docket submitting.
Kohberger is accused of killing Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in mid-November 2022 at a house in Moscow, Idaho, the place the college is positioned. The house has since been demolished.
Court docket paperwork offering an alibi for Kohberger said he “was out driving within the early morning hours of November 13, 2022; as he usually did to hike and run and/or see the moon and stars. He drove all through the world south of Pullman, Washington, west of Moscow, Idaho together with Wawawai Park.”
The doc stated a cell web site location data professional will testify that cell tower knowledge exhibits “Kohberger’s cell gadget was south of Pullman, Washington and west of Moscow, Idaho on November 13, 2022; that Bryan Kohberger’s cell gadget didn’t journey east on the Moscow-Pullman Freeway within the early morning hours of November thirteenth, and thus couldn’t be the car captured on video alongside the Moscow-Pullman freeway close to Floyd’s Hashish store.”
A earlier affidavit said investigators had discovered cell tower knowledge from that morning which confirmed Kohberger’s telephone in Pullman round 2:47 a.m. the evening of the murders, at which level it out of the blue stopped connecting to the cell community, in accordance with “48 Hours.” It was round this time surveillance video noticed his automotive go away his house, “48 Hours” reported.
Two hours after his telephone disappeared from the community, it reappeared south of Moscow and headed again towards Pullman, “48 Hours” reported.
On the time of his arrest, about six weeks after the murders, Kohberger was a Ph.D. criminology pupil and educating assistant at Washington State College’s Pullman campus, a few 15-minute drive from Moscow. Kohberger was arrested at his mother and father’ residence in Pennsylvania.
Wednesday’s discover of protection alibi additionally stated extra details about Kohberger’s location the evening of the murders “might be offered as soon as the State gives discovery requested and now topic to an upcoming Movement to Compel. If not disclosed, [the expert’s] testimony can even reveal that essential exculpatory proof, additional corroborating Mr. Kohberger’s alibi, was both not preserved or has been withheld.”
Kohberger’s lawyer has additionally requested for a change of venue, The Related Press reported, arguing he wouldn’t be given a good trial within the space the place the murders occurred.
“A good and neutral jury can’t be present in Latah County owing to the intensive, inflammatory pretrial publicity, allegations made about Mr. Kohberger to the general public by media that might be inadmissible at his trial, the small measurement of the neighborhood, the salacious nature of the alleged crimes, and the severity of the costs Mr. Kohberger faces,” lawyer Anne Taylor wrote, in accordance with AP.
Latah County’s prosecutor opposed the venue change request, the AP reported.
A listening to on the change of venue movement might be held on Could 14, 2024, court docket paperwork confirmed.
Kohberger is charged with 4 counts of homicide within the college students’ stabbing deaths. Kohberger didn’t reply when requested how he pleaded at his arraignment, so a decide entered not responsible pleas for him. Prosecutors have stated they may search the dying penalty if Kohberger is convicted.
— Kerry Breen contributed reporting.