One of the surviving roommates in a stabbing attack that left four University of Idaho students dead is being asked by suspect Bryan Kohberger's attorneys to testify in his upcoming preliminary hearing in the US - a demand she is resisting. 9News
attorneys to testify in his upcoming preliminary hearing in the US — a demand she is resisting, according to new court documents.
An affidavit from a defence investigator used in support of the subpoena claims Funke has information that is exculpatory to Kohberger. She is one of two people who survived the attack at a home.Bryan Kohberger's attorneys want a survivor of an attack that left four people dead, to testify. An attorney for Funke, who returned to her hometown of Reno, Nevada, following the November 2022 killings, is pushing back against the subpoena.The motion argues the defense demand is without support "and there is no further information or detail pertaining to the substance of the testimony, its materiality, or the alleged exculpatory information of Ms Funke or why it would be entertained at preliminary hearing.
It is not known at this point what information Funke has and whether it could help Kohberger and prevent the case from being bound over for trial.
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