Idaho Student Murders: Kohberger;s "Defense Team Seeks Trial Move."

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Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

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🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Idaho Student Murders: "Kohberger's Seeks Trial Move" #Kohberger #Idahostudentmurders #LatahCounty Ahead of a hearing next month, attorneys for Idaho student homicides suspect Bryan Kohberger have labeled his prospects at a fair trial in Moscow both an “extreme case” and “utterly corrupted” in seeking a venue change to Boise for his upcoming trial. In a court filing made public Tuesday afternoon, Kohberger’s public defenders argued that their client’s constitutional right to an impartial jury will be infringed upon without moving the trial out of Latah County, where the crime occurred. In their legal brief, which runs 300-plus pages long, they cited as further justification the “extensive publicity that is ongoing and inflammatory,” including the dissemination of inaccurate information in the news and on social media that would also be inadmissible at trial. “The publicity has been extremely pervasive in the small community of Latah County,” wrote Anne Taylor, Kohberger’s lead public defender. “Remediations, such as enlarging the jury pool, will not cure the problem.” Ada County, the state’s largest county with more than 500,000 residents and home to the capital, Boise, has “more than 10 times as many potential jurors than Latah County,” and gives Kohberger the best chance at an impartial jury, the filing read.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Police Off the Cuff. Real Crime Stories.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Retired NYPD, Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:15.5	You know, with the Idaho Four case and the Coburger case, and everyone, of course, is so concerned, the defense and the Coburger case and everyone of course is so concerned the defense and and the
0:23.4	judge, Judge John Judge, of Brian Coburger getting a fair trial. And just this weekend
0:34.2	has been mentioned before, a change of venue is requested for the case to be tried
0:39.8	in Boise, Idaho, not in Latar County, which is, of course, a Moscow, Idaho where the crimes
0:48.7	took place. There are many reasons for this, but the reasons being mentioned, of course, is on behalf of the defendant, Brian Coburger.
1:01.1	And some of the reasons raised were that everyone in Moscow, Idaho, everyone in Latar County believes that he's guilty.
1:14.8	And he would be unable to get a fair trial.
1:35.9	As you recall, several months ago, the defense conducted a survey to see how many people in Latar County felt that they could be a fair juror if they were chosen to be on the case of Brian Koberger.
1:48.3	Now, the prosecution, of course, objected to this, but Judge John Judge gave them permission, and they did, in fact, conducted that survey.
1:55.0	Now, there's many questions we also have to ask, and we'll get into that a little bit later, but how about the families of the victims?
1:59.7	How about the people of Moscow, Idaho, about will they get, will they get a fair prosecution when the defendant Brian Kohlberger, who turned this town upside down?
2:12.1	Again, he's innocent who proven guilty.
2:14.5	This crime, let's put it that way.
2:15.8	This crime turned this community upside down,
2:19.5	this university upside down, lost probably a lot of future students because of this
2:25.5	heinous act of violence that was conducted just off the campus of the University of Idaho.
2:34.1	So those are some of the questions we also have to ask.
2:37.0	So folks, hold on to your hats, hold on to your next door neighbor,
2:40.1	hold on to your service dog, hold on to your coffee, your beer, your glass of wine,
2:44.6	whatever you're about to enter true crime from a police perspective.
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