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Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. In

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this episode, we're picking up where we left off with

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the declaration of Brian Edelman in support of Brian Coohberger. Meanwhile,

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the university continues work on developing a memorial garden at

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an undetermined on campus location. The UI is also planning

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a memorial and garden to honor the four victims and

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a kernodle Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogan, and Kaylee Gonsalves. Green

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said the plans being developed by a committee of student representation.

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The university is also in the process of designing a

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memorial garden on campus to honor Kernodle Chapin, Mogan, and Gonsalvas.

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Scholarships have been created in memory of Kernodle Chapin and Mogen.

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The UI is currently working with the Gonsalvas family to

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develop a fourth scholarship in her name. Mementos left by

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local residents to honor the victims were seen next to

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the house's parking lot. The four students received posthumous degrees

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and certificates at UI's spring commencement ceremony. The house owner

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donated the property to UI in February and university officials

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have said they plan to tear down the house. Green

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said demolishing the house will be a healing step for

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the community, but the demolition plans are on hold until

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October after some of the victim's families asked the university

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for a delay until the suspect in the slaying stands trial.

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The King Rode Home, where a four University of Idaho

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students were murdered in November, will likely be demolished before

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the start of the fall semester, a university official says.

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After the murders, the property owner donated the home to

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the UI, which plan to demolish it before the start

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of the school's fall semester as a healing gesture for

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the community and to prevent efforts to sensationalize the crime scene.

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The King Road House, the crime scene where four University

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of Idaho students were murdered last year, was demolished early

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in the morning this Thursday. With construction crew's beginning demolition

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at six thirty am. Members of the media surrounded the

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house and directed their cameras toward the destruction. Walker confirmed

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that one hundred percent of the apartments and houses surrounding

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the King Road House house students and that the presence

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of the house affected those students. We heard from students

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in the area that they were ready for the house

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to come down. Shannon Gray, an attorney for the Gonsalvis family,

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said the university is disregarding family's requests that the home

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be left standing until after Coberger's trial. We just want

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justice for our loved ones. The statement read, we want

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to start healing. We do. We want to find justice

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and try to move on from this horrible tragedy. So

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please please start making some decisions, get to work, and

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quit playing the delay game. The previously unidentified former roommate

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at the King Road House in Moscow, where four University

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of Idaho students were killed in the late twenty twenty two,

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has publicly come forward in her efforts to contribute to

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the lasting legacy of her friends. Said she chose to

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speak out for the first time to honor the lives

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lost and bring awareness to college students about being safe

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on social media platforms. It crosses my mind more or

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than that could have happened while I was there, and

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you know, you never know how long someone's watching your

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house couch said in her interview, with kx LYTV and Spokane.

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I remember my last text message to her. I was like,

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are you okay? And I feel like, right then and there,

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I kind of just knew that something was wrong. I

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mean I couldn't even walk out to my car in

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the dark for months after it happened, Couch told the

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TV station. Now, Couch and her mother have found a nonprofit,

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the Maid with Kindness Foundation, to raise money for outreach

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and a national scholarship fund. Couch said she wants to

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ensure her former roommates are remembered in a positive light

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rather than in the way in which their lives were taken.

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The parents of the victims Gonsalvests, have consistently vented frustration

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about the length of time the case is taken more

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than eighteen months and counting since Coburger's arrest to bring

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to trial. The court needs to take control of the

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case and the attorneys involved, the Gonsalvest family said in

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a statement obtained by The Idaho Statesman two hearings last month.

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As long as the court continues to entertain anything in

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everything at every hearing, the delay will never end. The

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victim's families want justice, but just as importantly, we want

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the case to move forward. Family members of one of

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the victims in November quadruple homicide in Moscow or urging

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people to complete random acts of kindness on her behalf today.

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The media has also kept this case in the public's

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consciousness by providing constant updates on court proceedings, no matter

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how trivial. These hearings have covered a range of topics,

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from the court imposed gag order to evidentiary disputes. As

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part of the coverage of the victim's families in the

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public have been critical of perceived efforts by the defense

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to delay the trial. There was also significant coverage surrounding

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the defense change of venue survey, which came to light

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after the government filed and unseal motion to stop the

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data collection process. This resulted in another deluge of prejudicial

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coverage and discussion on social media and YouTube. After two

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hearings were streamed on COURTI and watch by thousands, the

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media drew on the prosecutions, court filing and arguments during

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the live stream proceedings, accusing the defense of spreading misinformation

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and tanking the jury pool. The coverage fed the public

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perception that the defense was trying to undermine the judicial

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process or get Coburger off on a legal technicality, and

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further undermine the Court's efforts to stem the flow of

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information to prospective jurors. Examples of this media coverage include

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Leayta County Prosecutor Bill Thompson and the questions on the

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survey were completely inappropriate for potential jurors, and that the

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information in the questions was false and it admissible, and

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that the question violated the non dissemination order. Leayta County

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Prosecutor Bill Thompson argued the survey is violating the court's

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non dissemination order that prohibits attorneys from making out of

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court statements about the case to the public. That is

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reckless conduct and its outrageous, Thompson said. About the survey questions,

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Thompson reiterated that Colberger's defense is allowed to conduct a survey,

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but the questions in this particular survey were inappropriate and

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jeopardized Colburger's right to a fair trial. We're trying to

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salvage a mess, Thompson said. Thompson's office found out about

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the survey questions in March from a Lata resident who

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recorded the phone survey. Thompson accused Edelman's survey of including

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loaded questions that introduce information, including false information about the

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case to the survey takers. In his closing statement, Thompson said,

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it seems the defense is okay with tanting jurors to

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ascertain the bias of other potential jurors. Thompson accused Edelman's

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survey of including loaded questions that introduced false information to

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the case to the survey takers. Thompson said that information

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is now planted into the Layta County residents who took

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the survey. I do not question the right of the

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defense to commission surveys, responsible proper surveys as part of

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the debate over venue, but this survey cannot stand, Thompson said.

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The prosecutor, defense attorney, and judge in the Brian Colburger

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case participated in a heated argument Thursday regarding due process

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and a survey of potential jurors in Leayta County. Judge

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John Judge was frustrated about the survey. This was a

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total shock to me because this is a big deal

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and I take it very very seriously, and I was surprised, okay,

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that this was happening behind our backs, my back, Judge said.

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He said that the survey happening without the commission of

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the court or the state, was troublesome, and that the

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questions planted seeds to encourage people to look up information

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about the case. Taylor and Judge got into a heated

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argument over due process stemming from judges order filed on

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March twenty second that prohibited the defense and prosecution from

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contacting potential jurors about the case. This was in response

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to the survey Leayta County District Judge John Judge prohibited

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Coburger's attorneys and the prosecution from contacting potential jurors about

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this case. In a March twenty second order, the defense

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in the Brian Colberger case has been ordered to pause

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surveying potential jurors in Laytai due to problematic questions. They

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asked four hundred potential jurors. The list of questions that

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were of a concern to the prosecution include information on

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Coburger's arrest, DNA evidence found at the crime scene that

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was matched to Colburger, Colburger owning the same car recorded

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on video driving in the neighborhood where the murders occurred,

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cell phone data showing Coburger making several trips to the

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victim's home in the month before the killings, University students

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and parents living in fear until Coburger's arrest, Coburger's alibi,

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Coburger potentially stalking one of the victims, and if Colburger

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followed one of the victims on social media. Judge expressed

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disappointment in the survey by saying the prosecution and defensive

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work so hard to protect a fair trial, which was

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the point of the non dissemination order. He is concerned

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the survey will inject prejudicial information into the jury pool.

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Judge John Judge will decide whether a survey of potential

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jurors in the Brian Colburger case inappropriately spread prejudicial information

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about the case. Prosecutor Bill Thompson took issue with several

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questions and a phone survey created by Brian Edelman, who

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is a survey expert hired by Colberger's defense attorney and Taylor.

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The question Thompson is concerned about asked the participants if

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they have read, seen, or heard about certain details about

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the Coburger case. Some of the details are not even true,

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Thompson said. They include questions about whether the participant knows

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about the knife sheath allegedly found at the crime scene,

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the multiple visits to the crime scene Colburger allegedly took,

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that Moscow residents lived in fear of following the crime,

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and that Coburger had allegedly stalked his victims. Thompson is

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concerned about specific questions regarding what he says is false

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information that was not on the probable cause affid David.

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One of those questions asked survey takers if they read, seen,

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or heard reports that Coburger stalked his victims. When Thompson

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questioned Edelman about the survey, the exchange between the two

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men became heated, and Taylor accused Thompson of badgering Edelman.

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Leta County District Judge John Judge is allowing Brian Colberger's

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defense to continue asking potential jurors to participate in a

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survey regarding the quadruple murder case. Judge officially lifted his

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previous order banning the defense from contacting prospective jurors in

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Leaytai County and other Idaho counties. In conclusion, My review

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of pre child publicity indicates that Leayta County jerrypool has

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been saturated with prejudicial coverage surrounding the sensational murders of

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four University of Idaho students, the ensuing search for the killer,

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public statements from the victims, family members, and evidentiary details.

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After Brian Colberger's arrest, the media reported extensively on alleged evidence,

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some of which proved to be false or misleading. These

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killings and shockwaves through the local community and generated a

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state of panic. Between twenty five percent forty percent of

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the student body failed to return to Moscow after the

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Thanksgiving break. Before the defendant's arrest, there was widespread frustration

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with the lack of details made public about the ongoing investigation.

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With minimal official information available, speculation and misinformation proliferated. The

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survey data indicate that the media coverage has negatively impacted

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the Layta County jerrypool. For example, ninety eight percent of

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the Latai County survey respondents have read, seen, or heard

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about the case, and eighty six percent recognized at least

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four of nine media items tested in the survey. Eighty

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one percent of those familiar with the case of Red

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seen or heard that police found a knife sheath on

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the bed next to one of the victims, and sixty

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seven percent heard that DNA found on the sheath match

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Brian Colberger. In addition, eighty eight percent of Layta County

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survey respondents have talked about this case or heard others

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talking about it in person or online. The media coverage

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has also shifted the burden of proof to the defendant.

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Many community members exposed to prejudicial media coverage hold a

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presumption of guilt in this case. Sixty seven percent of

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survey respondents familiar with the case believe that Brian Colberger

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is guilty of murder, and fifty one percent reported that

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he would have a difficult time convincing them otherwise. All right,

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we're going to wrap up this episode here and in

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the next episode, we're going to pick up with six

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telephone Survey. All of the information that goes with this

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