“We want to get this trial over. Just thinking it could be years absolutely kills me,” family members of victim Kaylee Goncalves said.
However, both Kohberger’s defense team and prosecutors are in
about postponing the trial. Kohberger’s lead defense attorney Anne Taylor argued that an Oct. 2 start date provided “inadequate time for proper legal counsel,” and Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson called postponing the trial a “smart move.”In June, prosecutors declared their intent to pursue the death penalty against Kohberger if he’s convicted. On Wednesday, Taylor said her team intends to file motions to strike the death penalty and also ban cameras in the courtroom during his trial.
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 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.In response, Thompson said the prosecution has “given the defense everything that we have received from the lab. They’ve asked for DNA work-ups on other people. To the extent that they don’t have them, they weren’t done.” He continued, “We can’t produce something that doesn’t exist.
Over the last several months, forensic evidence as well as cell phone data and surveillance camera footage have all been piling up against Kohberger. And his only alibi,The University of Idaho killings have been the subject of public fascination for a year now
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