Prosecutors in Idaho have rejected Bryan Kohberger’s alleged alibi for the time four University of Idaho students were slaughtered in their beds and asked the judge overseeing the case to disallow it.
Kohberger’s public defender, Anne Taylor, filed nearly a year ago that her client intended to present an alibi, prompting Prosecutor Bill Thompson to demand that she provide the “specific” locations Kohberger claimed to be during the timre of the murders along with the names of witnesses who would corroborate his alibi.
Taylor did that last week, claiming he was out driving around to see the “moon and stars” and that a true crime podcaster who founded a cell phone data company would provide “evidence” of his location, as CrimeOnline reported.
But Thompson, in his filing, repeated what investigators had already said, saying such testimony “does not rise to the level of an alibi at the time of the homicides because the Defendant’s cell phone stopped reporting to the cellular network before the homicides and continued to not report until after the homicides.”
“The location of Defendant’s cell phone at times other than the time of the homicides is not proof of or relevant to the Defendant’s specific location at the time of the homicides (approximately 4:00 -4:30 a.m. on November 13, 2022),” the filing said.
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Thompson further noted that Kohberger’s locations during the time his cell phone was communicating with cellular networks on the night of the murders “are described in the original Probable Cause Affidavit supporting the Criminal Complaint in this case.”
Because of that, “the State respectfully requests that the Court enter an order denying the defendant any further opportunity to add to any purported claim of alibi and preclude testimony by anyone other than the Defendant ‘as to the defendant’s absence from or presence at the scene of the (homicide).'”
Taylor has not yet responded to the state’s filing.
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[Featured image: Bryan Kohberger on May 22, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. (Zach Wilkinson/The Moscow-Pullman Daily News via AP, Pool)]
