Criminologist Bryan Kohberger's request to have his quadruple murder trial moved out of Moscow, Idaho, has been granted by Judge John Judge.
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.
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.
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. Police arrested him at his parents' place in the Pocono Mountains after he drove home cross-country with his dad in the weeks following the slayings. Kohberger could face the death penalty if convicted. The victims will be honored with a memorial garden on campus designed by fellow students.
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