Idaho's judge denies Bryan Kohberger's “Hohle” attempt to go on the death penalty

A judge from Idaho concluded another effort from Bryan Kohberger's defense to remove the death penalty from the table if he is convicted of the killings of four students from the University of Idaho 2022.

In a recent hearing, Kohberger's defense team tried to delete the death penalty and argued that the discovery generated by the public prosecutor was great and disorganized, which means that they could not use them meaningfully. Judge Steven Hippler said the claims of the defense “Ring Hollow”.

“[Kohberger] Has been recovering in the same way for over two years, “Hippler wrote.”[Kohberger] Has not applied for additional resources to hire additional employees to check the discovery or to receive software for controlling legal disputes in order to organize and sort evidence. His senior lawyer insisted that, despite the extensive discovery in this case, she may take over a second top -class capital case. “

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Hippler also pointed out that Kohberger's senior defender Anne Taylor “stated that her practice was to check all discoveries personally instead of relying on employees and employees to check materials in order to reduce the less relevant information and to point out which materials need a review by conductive lawyers.”

Kohberger's lawyers had also submitted an application to ask the judge to sanction the public prosecutor because they had not made any evidence by removing the death penalty.

But Hippler filed the application on Tuesday and said that the sanctions were “not justified” because there are no violations by prosecutors in the discovery process.

“In the cases specified by the accused, in which the courts made the death penalty as a conviction option, the accused had demonstrated that the public prosecutor's office violated either intentionally or accidentally (but with extreme prejudices).

This is the 13th time that the judge decided against the attempt to defend the death penalty that Idaho Stasman reported.

Just last week, Hippler denied a separate effort from Kohberger's defense, in which Kohberger's autism spectrum quoted.

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His team argued that the execution of someone with autism would be a cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth change in the US constitution.

“Mr. Kohberger (ASD )'s autism spectrum disorders reduces his guilt, negates the retribution measures and daunting purposes of capital penalty and exposes it to the unacceptable risk that it will be wrongly sentenced and sentenced to death,” wrote defense lawyers in court papers.

The public prosecutor argued that the precedent of the Supreme Court of the Us Court of Justice, which excludes the introduction of the death penalty, is a mental disability – and Kohberger diagnosis is “without accompanying mental impairment”.

The judge decided that the prosecutors can pursue the death penalty against Kohberger if he was convicted of the accused despite the recent autism diagnosis.

The prosecutors have long said they intended to apply for the death penalty if Kohberger is convicted of brutal murders.

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The 30-year-old Kohberger is charged with the students of the University of Idaho Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in a house outside the campus in Moscow, Idaho, in the early morning of November 13, 2022.

The doctor of criminal justice, who studied at the time of the murders at Washington State University, was arrested in Pennsylvania weeks later.

The investigators said they had coordinated his DNA with genetic material that were recovered from a knife sheath that was found at the scene.

Kohberger's trial is expected to begin the selection of the jury on July 30th and the openings for August 11th.