Bryan Kohberger faces four counts of murder in connection with the November 2022 killings of four University of Idaho students — and if convicted, the former criminology Ph.D student could face the death penalty.
Bryan Kohberger faces four counts of murder in connection with the November 2022 killings of four University of Idaho studentsNicole Acosta is a staff writer on the crime team at PEOPLE. She previously worked at Daily Voice and doNYC and is a Mercy College graduate.On Thursday, Nov. 7, Kohberger appeared in court in Boise, Idaho, for a hearing that will determine whether he will get a death sentence if convicted in the brutal stabbing deaths of, 20, of which he's accused.
“You just need one appellate judge, state or federal, to buy one of these arguments, and you might save his life years down the road,” he says. Kohberger was a criminology Ph.D student at Washington State University and lived in Pullman, Wash., roughly eight miles away from the scene of the crime, at the time of the slayings. He has pleaded not guilty.
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