Hey everyone. I'm Ashley Banfield and this is Drop Dead Serious and I have never been more serious.

I am absolutely gobsmacked by what just came out of Idaho. I know that you're probably tuning in because you've heard the news that the prosecutors have offered Brian Koberger life in prison with no opportunity for parole and no opportunity to ever appeal that decision in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table.

And Brian Koberger has accepted it.

And it will not be inked on paper till Wednesday.

And once it's inked on paper, there'll be about four weeks, maybe a little less, maybe three and a half weeks until there'll be a sentencing

where the family members of the victims and don't forget the surviving roommates, if they so

choose, will be able to give victims impact statements, stand in court, say their peace

with limitations. But I did not see it coming because we're so close to trial, where we're only

four weeks away from trial. But it is entirely

possible that Anne Taylor, who is the public defender, who's been vehemently defending Brian

Koberger for two and a half years, it is entirely possible she just ran out of arrows.

Last week, a big decision came down and her quiver got kind of half-emptied.

When the judge said, no, you may not mount an alternative perpetrator theory and point to

two, three, or four other people with some ideas on who did what, but those are the killers.

You may not. Your evidence sucks.

And what you're going to do is you're going to put that evidence up there, and it's terrible,

and yet the Internet will go bananas, and those people's lives will be ruined.

So if you had good evidence, we would have to do that, and those people would have to go through that,

but you have terrible. These are just fantasies, That's my word. And so Anne Taylor lost that

opportunity to mount the defense that someone else did it, to hopefully come up with a grain of,

you know, reasonable doubt for a jury. And without that, she might have looked at her client and

said, uh, we can't win this. I can't win this. And they that, she might have looked at her client and said, we can't win this.

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