30 news organizations have asked the Idaho Supreme Court to overturn a sweeping gag order in a case against a man accused of stabbing 4 University of Idaho students to death.
BOISE — Thirty news organizations have asked the Idaho Supreme Court to overturn a gag order in a case against a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death.
, at a rental home across the street from the University of Idaho campus. The slayings shocked the rural Idaho community and neighboring Pullman, Washington, where Kohberger was a graduate student studying criminology at Washington State University. "Justice cannot survive behind walls of silence. For that reason, 'a responsible press has always been regarded as the handmaiden of effective judicial administration, especially in the criminal field,'" coalition attorney Wendy Olson wrote in the court filing, quoting historic court rulings about prior restraints on free speech.
Despite the great public interest in the case, there have not been any notable leaks of information that would prejudice Kohberger's right to a fair trial, Olson said. "Petitioners do not make the news; they report the news. They cannot report what they cannot gather," Olson wrote. The order also prevents the victims' families from having attorneys talk to the media on their behalf, Gray said.
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