Bryan Kohberger's lawyer says the public showed bias against her client when people contacted by a defense researcher conducting a survey called police.
Most people don't like spam calls. Bryan Kohberger's lead lawyer has accused the public of bias against her client, who is suspected of killing four University of Idaho students, after Latah County residents called police to report a defense expert had contacted them for a survey. 'The afternoon filing on March 22, 2024 was done with the intention of obtaining an immediate order without a hearing,' Kootenai County Public Defender Anne Taylor wrote to the court.
Taylor's office hired a social psychologist named Bryan Edelman to conduct the polling. In her filing, Taylor conceded 'many' of Edelman's questions about 'media influence' are 'NOT factually correct.' But Edelman, in a signed declaration, denied violating the gag order with his questions. None of them 'included any information that was not widely reported and available in the public domain,' he wrote.
Jury contact is typically forbidden, but surveys have been used in the past to bolster defense attorneys' arguments for a change of venue. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for Thursday. Kohberger, 29, had studied violent criminals, including the serial killer BTK, whose real name is Dennis Rader, and was pursuing a Ph.D. in criminology at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, at the time of the murders.
The attack killed Madison Mogen, 21, Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20. According to court documents, police found Kohberger's DNA on a Ka-Bar knife sheath left under Mogen's body and placed his car and cellphone in the vicinity of the crime scene.
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