So the judge for the Idaho College murders case is laying the groundwork with these critical decisions ahead of the high-profile murder trial this summer.

This morning, the judge in the Idaho College murders case largely citing with prosecutors in several key rulings for Brian Coburger's August trial.

Regarding Coburgers, autism spectrum disorder, DNA disorder DNA evidence witness testimony and suspects car

judge Stephen Hipler severely restricting what coburgers defense team can say about his autism

spectrum disorder unless coburger takes a stand on his own behalf in order to explain his behavior

the judge clearing the way for an Idaho state police lab manager to testify on specifics of Coburgers DNA,

which prosecutors say was found at the crime scene on a knife sheaf similar to this.

What does a knife sheath at a scene mean?

That's going to be the ultimate question.

The defense has argued that Coburger's DNA

could have gone on the sheath by other means than murder. Prosecutors claim Coburger

bought the knife and sheath on Amazon eight months before Kaylee Gonzalez, Madison Mogan,

Zana Kernodal, and Ethan Chapin were fatally stabbed in an off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho in 2022.

Do you think that the surviving roommates were under the stress of the immediate events?

As for one of those surviving roommates, the judge ruling her account of seeing a masked intruder with bushy eyebrows can be used at trial.

The defense claimed it would bias the jury, but the judge called her descriptions remarkably consistent.

And the judge will allow a state expert to testify that this white Hyundai-A-Lontra spotted on security cameras at and around the crime scene is the same make and model that Koeberger drove.

Now the trial is set for August.

Koberger is charged with four counts of first degree murder and one count of burglary.

A not guilty plea was entered on his behalf by a judge. So again, we talk about it all the

time on this show. Circumstantial evidence. And don't ever let anyone tell you that circumstantial

evidence is not very powerful evidence. Because here we have the knife sheath.

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