Idaho
Bryan Kohberger's defense reveals alleged details from night of arrest at parent's Pennsylvania home
There are new developments in the Idaho college murders case as defense attorneys are challenging key evidence that they say was improperly obtained by police, including search warrants and DNA.
New court filings from Bryan Kohberger’s defense team depict a chaotic night when the former PhD student was arrested at his parent’s home in the Pennsylvania Poconos.
His lawyers claim that during the raid, law enforcement broke the front door of the home, shattered the sliding glass door of the basement and held the entire family at gunpoint. They also allege that while Kohberger was “zip tied at his hands and surrounded by police at gun point,” he “made statements to his arresting officers,” despite “not having his rights read to him.”
The many pre-trial hearings in Idaho quadruple murder case against Bryan Kohberger
Now, they want those statements thrown out, along with other key pieces of evidence lead defense attorney Anne Taylor argues were “illegally gathered by law enforcement using his genetic information.”
Authorities linking Kohberger to the crime after they say they found DNA that was a “statistical match” on the button snap of a knife sheath at the crime scene where Xana Kernolde, Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Ethan Chapin were found stabbed to death.
“When law enforcement uses that positive match and then says, well, we need to go and get a search warrant because we have a positive match for Bryan Kohberger, that the DNA evidence is tainted and anything comes from it is fruit from a poisonous tree,” said ABC News contributor Brian Buckmire.
The defense, who says Kohberger is innocent, claiming without that genetic information, there could have been no request for his phone records which prosecutors also say implicate him.
Taylor is also challenging the way authorities gathered search warrants, especially pertaining to the search of Kohberger’s car, a white Hyundai Elantra, as well as his Apple and Amazon accounts.
Taylor says the warrants lacked probable cause.
The trial is set for August and we are still awaiting the judge’s decision on the defense’s request to have the death penalty taken off the table.
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MISSOULA, Mont. — An Idaho Falls angler is back in the Idaho record books after landing a record-setting lake trout at Payette Lake.
Idaho Fish and Game said Dylan Smith caught and released a 43.25-inch lake trout on May 2, setting a new state catch-and-release record for the species. The fish surpassed the previous record of 42 inches.
The catch marks Smith’s second appearance in Idaho’s record books. He previously held the state catch-and-release lake trout record after landing a trophy fish in 2018 before that mark was later broken.
According to Fish and Game, Payette Lake has become one of Idaho’s premier lake trout fisheries thanks to years of management efforts aimed at improving both lake trout and kokanee populations.
Pride Month looks different this June along Boise’s Harrison Boulevard, where a long-standing tradition of hanging Pride flags on lamp posts has been put on hold after a new state law restricted which flags can be flown on government property.
For several years, Pride flags lined lamp posts along Harrison Boulevard in Boise’s North End neighborhood. But Idaho House Bill 561, signed by Gov. Brad Little in March, restricts which flags can be flown on government property, including the City of Boise’s Harrison lamp posts.
In response, a group of neighbors formed Pride North End and launched a distribution effort to help residents show support from their own front yards. The group has been making Pride flags and yard signs available to people who want to display them at home.
“I thought that I would…be a personal example of ‘yes, this is what I do.’ This is what I believe in,” said Edna Schochat, a North End resident.
Pride North End has already distributed more than 900-yard signs and 250 flags. The group’s original donation goal was around $2,000 to order 100 flags and 200 yard signs, but it has exceeded that GoFundMe goal, reaching $10,000 worth of donations.
The group plans to continue holding public flag and sign distributions through the end of the month.
“We cannot just say something without doing something that proves that we mean what we say,” Schochat said.
Pride North End said any leftover funds after materials are distributed will go to local LGBTQ+ nonprofits. A link to the group’s GoFundMe can be found here.
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