Suspect Bryan Kohberger Defense 'Torment' Surviving Murder Victim
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Bryan Kohberger's defense team is trying to compel one of the two women who survived mass murder in an Idaho home to testify.
Kohberger's attorneys have asked a Nevada court for Bethany Funke to travel to Idaho and testify as a witness for Kohberger. Funke does not want to appear and is fighting the subpoena through her own lawyer.
According to the defense, Funke has information that could prove Kohberger's innocence. Funke's attorney filed a motion, arguing that there is "no further information or detail pertaining to the substance of the testimony, its materiality, or the alleged exculpatory information of Ms. Funke or why it would be entertained at preliminary hearing.”
Funke’s lawyer also argues that Nevada law requires a hearing before the subpoena could be issued. There was no hearing.
As of now, the extent of Funke's testimony and whether it could help Kohberger is not known.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime stories with Nancy Grace |
| 0:14.0 | Bob Shell in the last hours in the case against Brian Coburger charged in the murder of four |
| 0:21.0 | beautiful Idaho University students, we learn that one of the crime victims who survived |
| 0:29.9 | roommate Bethany Funk is fighting tooth and nail a subpoena delivered by the |
| 0:38.2 | defense Brian Coburger's lawyer trying to force Funk from her home in Reno all the |
| 0:46.4 | way back to Moscow Idaho to testify for Brian Coburger. I'm Nancy Grace this is |
| 0:54.5 | Crime Stories thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and serious XM111 |
| 0:59.5 | first of all take a listen our cut 378 our friends at ABC one of two survivors of the |
| 1:05.5 | Idaho College murders fighting back after suspect Brian Coburger's legal team |
| 1:10.2 | subpoena her to testify the survivors attorney calling the subpoena improper |
| 1:15.6 | saying Coburger's legal team has no authority to summon her for the preliminary |
| 1:20.2 | hearing Coburger is charged with murdering four of her friends in the early |
| 1:24.8 | morning hours of November 13th the victims have found on the second and third |
| 1:29.0 | floor of the home while she was on the first and now in court documents |
| 1:33.8 | Coburger's team claiming the survivor may be a material witness for his case and |
| 1:40.2 | could possibly provide exculpatory information. I've never heard a bigger |
| 1:45.3 | crock of BS in my life that's a technical legal term joining me in all-star |
| 1:50.6 | panel but first let's go to Dale Carson high profile lawyer out of Jacksonville |
| 1:56.2 | former FBI agent Dale Carson this is total BS because this is a preliminary |
| 2:02.7 | hearing that's gonna be held June 26th it is not a jury trial therefore this is |
| 2:08.4 | just a state putting up a bare bones case the defense doesn't even have to |
| 2:13.2 | reply this is a fishing expedition to force Bethany out of home away from home |
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