PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Prosecutors responded to the defense requests to disclose more DNA profiles, saying they cannot produce what they don’t have DNA will play a key role as prosecutors have filed court documents calling Kohberger’s DNA a statistical match to a knife sheath found at the crime scene."
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STORY: "Kohberger's trial will largely focus on DNA evidence," by Main Producer/Noon News Anchor Gina Jameson, published by KMVT/KSVT, on August 20, 2023. (Gina is a graduate of the University of Idaho and Gonzaga University and has her master's degree in communication leadership studies. She has spent the past two plus decades in the media and journalism field working in print, radio and television.)
SUB-HEADING: "Judge imposed strict guidelines ahead of October 2nd trial date."
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — The suspect at the center of the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students appeared in court on Friday for a contentious pretrial hearing at the Latah County Courthouse in Moscow.
Defense attorneys for Bryan Kohberger are focusing on the DNA evidence at the center of the case.
Kohberger walked into the courtroom, as the families of the murder victims observed behind the defense table in the courts seating gallery.
The 28-year-old Pennsylvania man is charged in the stabbing deaths of four students last November at their off-campus house on King Road. During the pretrial hearing on Friday the defense questioned the validity of the DNA found on the knife sheath that allegedly connects Kohberger to the murders.
His attorneys are demanding more information about that DNA from the prosecutors, and they argue that he’s innocent and was out driving around alone at the time of the murders on November 13, 2022.
Kohberger’s defense team told the court “They have provided full discovery for the sheath, the DNA evidence found on the knife sheath. But not the other three unidentified male DNA samples.”
Judge John Judge did not make a ruling on the matter, and also denied a motion by the defense to delay the trial.
Prosecutors responded to the defense requests to disclose more DNA profiles, saying they cannot produce what they don’t have DNA will play a key role as prosecutors have filed court documents calling Kohberger’s DNA a statistical match to a knife sheath found at the crime scene.
Judge Judge also imposed a strict guideline for both sides to stick to during Friday’s hearing, so the trial can keep on pace with the October 2nd trial date.
All motions have to be filed by September 22nd, so jury selection may start on September 25th.
Kohberger has plead not guilty to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary; If found guilty, prosecutors have already said they will seek the death penalty."
The entire story can be read at:
kohbergers-trial-will-largely-focus-dna-evidence
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Read also: Bryan Kohberger secretly alleges 24 flaws in Idaho murders indictment in latest motion to dismiss. (But Nota Bene: The details of these alleged flaws are currently sealed. HL);
https://news.yahoo.com/bryan-kohberger-secretly-alleges-24-141642682.html
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/47049136857587929
FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices.
Lawyer Radha Natarajan;
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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YET ANOTHER FINAL WORD:
David Hammond, one of Broadwater’s attorneys who sought his exoneration, told the Syracuse Post-Standard, “Sprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it’s the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction.”
https://deadline.com/2021/11/alice-sebold-lucky-rape-conviction-overturned-anthony-broadwater-1234880143/
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