Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: We're gonna jump right back into the headlines that we
might have missed from overnight and over the weekend to
see where things currently stand as of this morning. Once again,
we'll be using the Independent headline Idaho murders. Brian Coohberger's
attorneys received thousands of documents and photos as evidence in case.
This article was authored by Rachel Sharp and Andrea Blanco.
Attorneys representing Brian Kohberger have now received thousands of documents
and photos as evidence in the University of Idaho murders case.
Court filings reveal that prosecutors in Moscow, Idaho, handed over
the huge trove of evidence to lawyers for the twenty
eight year old suspect mass killer last week, including nine
hundred and ninety five pages of documents, one audience video file,
and one thousand, eight hundred and sixty five photos. So
that's the evidence that they were telling us about when
they were giving us the daily updates. Remember, they were
giving us an accounting of what they've collected so far,
not so much as specific details, but the amount of
evidence that had been collected. Well, now all of the
evidence that was collected during that investigation is going to
have to get handed over to the defense, and the
defense gets a chance to go through it and they
decide from there what they're going to do as far
as strategy goes. The evidence which shows what led investigators
to arrest the criminology PhD student for the murders of
Klee Gonsalvez, Madison Mogan, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin came
in response to the defense's discovery request in the case. However,
the state objected to handing over some information in the case,
including the identity of potential infants, and that's something that
they're going to wrangle about trying to figure out what
they have to turn over as far as what the
court is going to demand and what they're going to
turn over willingly meaning.
Speaker 2: The prosecution for discovery purposes.
Speaker 1: This comes as it emerged that mister Coberger's attorney, Public
Defender Ann Taylor, has ties to the families of two
of the student victims. Public defender Ann Taylor previously represented
the father and stepmother of Mogan in now closed criminal cases.
She also represented Kernodle's mother, Karen Northington, on drugs charges
at the time of mister Coburger's arrest, before dropping her
as she took on mister Coberger's case. The ties of
raised concerns about a possible conflict of interest in the case,
and there has been a lot of talk surrounding a
possible conflict of interest here and what might possibly come next.
We'll have to wait and see, because with the gag
order and all of the secrecies surrounding what's going on here,
chances are behind the scenes they're already discussing this, trying
to figure out what will work best for everybody involved.
Xana Kernodle's mother says she opposes the death penalty for
daughter's killer. The mother of slain's student Xana Kernodle has
revealed that she opposes the death penalty for her daughter's
accused killer, Brian Coberger. Karen Northington told News Nation that
she wants the suspect to pay for what he's done,
but is against the death penalty. And there's a lot
of people out there that are like this, folks that
don't believe in the death penalty no matter what. Now
I'm in a different camp. I'm not a big fan
of the death penalty. And I'm not one of these
people that's always out here talking about this one should
be killed by the state, or that one should be
killed by the state. But in certain circumstances, such as
what we saw in Idaho and anywhere really that you
commit a crime such as this and the death penalty
is available to the prosecutors, I think that the prosecutors
owe it to the state to at least go after
that death penalty. Remember these prosecutors, they're elected officials, so
they have to answer to their constituents as well.
Speaker 2: That's not who I am.
Speaker 1: I don't believe in the death penalty, but I do
think that he should spend the rest of his days
in prison.
Speaker 2: She said.
Speaker 1: Her stance comes in opposition to the parents of Kaylee Gonsalvez,
who previously said they would support the death penalty for
the person responsible for killing the four students. And we
haven't heard anything from Ethan's parents, so we don't know
where they stand. But from everything that we have heard
from them, they seem to be like the kind of
people that are not for the death penalty.
Speaker 2: But that's just my observation.
Speaker 1: I don't know for sure, so I wonder how that's
all going to play out when it comes time for punishment,
If and when there's a conviction, is there going to
be a discussion amongst the families in confidence perhaps about
the penalty phase, or are they just going to leave
it in the hands of the prosecutor. What can be
expected from Brian Kohberger's preliminary hearing on June twenty sixth.
Duncan Levin, a former assistant District attorney in the Manhattan
DA's office who has no official connection to the Idaho
murders case, speaks to The Independent about the strength of
the criminal case and what to expect next as it
makes its way through the courts. Further Ever, evidence and
information about the case is not expected to be made
public until the preliminary hearing on June twenty sixth, after
a judge issue to gag order preventing officials from talking
about the case. And not only is there that gag order,
but they've been slow walking the uploads of the court
filings as well. Behind the scenes, both sides will be
conducting investigative work, examining discovery and moving the case forward,
said mister Levin in the preliminary hearing. The prosecution and
the defense will then both lay out their cases in
court for the first time. Witnesses will likely be called
and the defense will have the opportunity to cross examine them,
and mister Coberger will enter a plee on the charges.
I think this case looks like it's headed the trial,
said mister Levin, adding that due to the complexity of
the case, it could take some time. As a case
where the death penalty is on the table, it will
take a long time to wind its way through the
courts and it will be a lengthy court proceeding.
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 1: It's not the kind of case a court regularly handles,
so whether it's in twenty twenty three is an open question.
And unfortunately, the wheels of justice they take a long
time to grind, and you see cases like this go
through the court systems and take sometimes years to get
to a completion. Now do I think that's what's gonna
happen here? No, I do not, But who knows. Whenever
you have something like this working its way through the
court system, there are all kinds of pitfalls and all
sorts of evolutionary periods. For a case that is as
complex as what we see here, so I wouldn't be
shocked to see more court continuances, delays, and other stuff
pop up as we make our way towards an actual trial.
Brian Coberger's attorney receives thousands of documents and photos as
evidence in the case. Attorneys representing Brian Coberger have now
received thousands of documents and photos as evidence in the
University of Idaho murders case. Court filings reveal that prosecutors
in Moscow, Idaho, handed over the huge trove of evidence
to lawyers for the twenty eight year old suspect did
mass killer last week, including nine hundred and ninety five
pages of documents, one audio file, video file, and one
eight hundred and sixty five photos. The evidence, which shows
what led investigators to arrest the criminology PhD student for
the murders of Klee Gonsalvez, Madison Mogan, Xana Kernodle, and
Ethan Chapin, came in response to the defense's discovery request
in the case. However, the state objected to handing over
some information in the case, including the identity of potential informants.
And you'll see that a lot whenever you have an
informant or somebody who might have some information about what's
going on the State is going to be very coy
when turning that information over to the defense, and they'll
wait as long as possible to do that, and they'll
give you all kinds of reasons why they can't give
you that information. The state objects to request by the
defendant for anything not otherwise addressed above, on the grounds
that such requests are outside of the scope of I
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to disclosure under ICR sixteen G work product and informants
prosecutors right in the court filings. So they just don't
want them having access to that yet. And according to
Idaho state law, they're able to make this move. So
it's going to be interesting to see what they learn
or what we learn from these documents. But this is
all the evidence that the police have as far as
what they were using as probable cause and what they
brought forward as evidence against Brian Coberger. Now legally he
has the right to see all of that. Right, he
has the right to have access to all of that
information that has been compiled against him. And then from
there him and his lawyers, they're going to come up
with a strategy to try and fight this. Brian Coberger's
attorney has ties to second victim's family. The attorney representing
Brian Coberger has ties to the family of a second
victim of the University of Idaho murders. It has been
revealed public defender Anne Taylor previously represented the father and
stepmother of Madison Mogan in now closed criminal cases. According
to court records seen by Inside Edition Digital and the
revelations about Ann Taylor working with the victim's family members
several of the victim's family members just adds another layer
of intrigue on top of all of the other layers
of intrigue that we have seen weaved into this case.
The connection comes after it emerged that Miss Taylor was
representing Xana Kernodle's mother, Karen Northington, on drug charges at
the time of mister Coberger's arrest. Court documents filed on
January fifth showed that the attorney then dropped her as
a client the same day that she took on Misster
Coberger's case and represented him in Courton Moscow for the
first time on charges of murdering Kernodle Mogan. Ethan Chapin
and Kaylee Gonsalvez. The ties to the victims' families has
raised some concerns about a possible conflict of interest in
the case, and we'll have to see what comes of that.
At this point, we just don't know what's going on
behind the scenes, right, but it's certainly an important factor
in what's going to happen next. Is Coburger gonna need
a new lawyer, is aying Taylor gonna stick it out.
Is Coburger gonna sign a waiver saying that he's not
going to appeal on the grounds of Ann Taylor having
relationships previously with these family members.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of questions.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, we don't have that many answers, so we'll continue
plotting our way through it and trying to figure out
what's what all right, folks, that's gonna do it for
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