Idaho judge rules on Bryan Kohberger’s motion to change venue in student murder trial

An Idaho judge has granted suspected quadruple murderer Bryan Kohberger’s request to have his trial moved out of Latah County, where he is accused of killing four college students in an early morning home invasion attack. Judge John Judge’s order was unsealed Monday, moving the trial to an unspecified new location, possibly the larger Ada County — and finding that massive media coverage of the case could taint the local jury in and around Moscow, where the attack took place. BRYAN KOHBERGER’S DEFENSE CITES IDAHO TOWN’S ‘MOB MENTALITY’ IN BID FOR VENUE CHANGE Prosecutors sought to have the trial held at the courthouse in Moscow, next to the jail where the 29-year-old Kohberger has been held without bail since shortly after his arrest in Pennsylvania at his parents’ house, roughly seven weeks after the Nov. 13, 2022 slayings. Kohberger’s lawyers argued that the suspected quadruple murderer cannot get a fair trial in Latah County due to “extensive, inflammatory pretrial publicity.” “This Court orders a transfer of venue ‘without specifying the new place of venue’ and refers ‘the case to the administrative director of the courts for assignment by the Supreme Court to a court of proper venue in another judicial district and assignment of a specific judge to preside in the criminal proceeding,'” Judge wrote. Read the judge’s order Goncalves’ family, based in the neighboring Kootenai County, said in a statement said relatives were “incredibly” disappointed in the decision. IDAHO PROSECUTORS OBJECT TO BRYAN KOHBERGER DEFENSE’S EFFORT TO MOVE TRIAL “What was the point of the non-dissemination order, private meetings, closed door tactics, allowing the Defendant to be dressed in a suit for every televised hearing etc…if not to keep the trial in Latah County?” SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTER FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X Kohberger was a criminology Ph.D. student at Washington State University, just 10 miles away across the state line at the time of the murders. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/idaho-judge-rules-bryan-kohberger-motion-change-venue-student-murder-trial