Bryan Kohberger’s defense beat back at prosecutors’ plan to give an Ada County jury the option to hand the University of Idaho homicide suspect a death sentence in the latest court filings of the closely watched case.
Kohberger’s attorneys this week filed more than a dozen briefs to support their ongoing effort to strike the death penalty as a possible sentence for the man suspected of killing four U of I students in November 2022. The filings came in response to objections earlier this month from state prosecutors who want capital punishment for Kohberger if he is convicted of murder.
The new defense briefs, each signed by Kootenai County public defender Jay Logsdon, aimed to pick away at prosecutors’ arguments about the appropriateness and their authority in Idaho to seek a death sentence for Kohberger. Logsdon countered in his briefs that many of the grounds for doing so are inconsistent, outdated or unconstitutional, based on U.S. and Idaho laws and legal precedents…