Bryan Kohberger, a former criminology Ph.D. student who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022, will now be tried on August 11, 2025, instead of the original date of August 11, 2022.
The defence and the prosecution both decided on next summer as the trial date, so Judge John Judge set the date for June 2, 2025, as the start of the trial.
A new order from Wednesday says the trial will now take place from August 11 to November 7, 2025.
There will still be a hearing on motions to challenge the death sentence on November 7, 2024.
At the time of the killings, Kohberger was a student at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. The school is only 10 miles away, across the state line.
Four college students were stabbed and killed in their home at 4 a.m. on November 13, 2022. They were Madison Mogen (21), Kaylee Goncalves (21), Xana Kernodle (20), and Ethan Chapin (20).
Police say that Kohberger’s DNA was on the snap of a Ka-Bar knife sheath that they found under Mogen’s body.
Official records show that police also followed Kohberger’s Hyundai Elantra as it drove around the area on its way to and from the crime scene.
The trial has already been pushed back more than a year because the defence lawyers say the prosecution is taking too long to hand over evidence through discovery.
Investigators say that Kohberger’s cellphone pings put him close to the house on the day of the murders. However, his lawyers have said that he wasn’t even close to the house that day; instead, they say he was driving around on the dark, steep mountain roads because he liked to “see the moon and stars.”
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