Kohberger’s Lawyers Are Running Out of Moves – Here’s What’s Left
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we break down exactly what went wrong for the defense, how the judge’s rulings have strengthened the prosecution’s case, and what legal maneuvers are still left on the table. Can Kohberger’s team poke holes in the state’s evidence? Will they shift focus to jury selection, media bias, or forensic science challenges to create doubt?
As the trial looms closer, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Will this case end in conviction, or can the defense pull off a last-minute upset? We dig into every legal move that could shape the outcome of one of the most watched trials in recent history.
Tune in now for the latest developments in the Kohberger case.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:05.0 | What I'm talking about a bad day in court? |
| 0:08.0 | Brian Coburger just had a really, really bad day in court. |
| 0:13.0 | After months of motion after motion, |
| 0:17.0 | challenge after challenge, his legal team did everything they could to chip away at the |
| 0:25.0 | case against him. And they failed. That's the takeaway. But not without trying. I got to give it to |
| 0:36.1 | Ann Taylor. She is a good attorney. |
| 0:40.0 | They didn't fail just a little bit here, though. |
| 0:42.1 | They completely failed at all the motions they've been bringing up. |
| 0:46.7 | Every single major motion they filed denied. |
| 0:50.8 | Every single argument to suppress key evidence thrown out. Every attempt to dismiss the case on technicalities dead on arrival. |
| 1:01.4 | The judge's rulings in the case here were not just a setback for the defense. |
| 1:06.6 | They were a full-on collapse of any hope Koeberger had of walking into that trial without |
| 1:11.9 | the jury seeing the most damning pieces of evidence against him. |
| 1:16.5 | So let's break it all down. |
| 1:18.9 | What just happened in court? |
| 1:21.7 | Why it's a disaster for the defense and how it shapes the road ahead in this very high-profile trial. |
| 1:29.7 | Let's start with the biggest fight, the DNA evidence. This has been a battle for months. |
| 1:36.9 | Investigators found a knife sheath next to one of the victims, and on that sheath, |
| 1:42.1 | lo and behold, they recovered a single male DNA sample. |
| 1:47.4 | That sample didn't match anyone in the house. It didn't match friends. It didn't match the |
| 1:52.9 | victims. But through a forensic process called investigative genetic genealogy, otherwise known as |
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