Bryan Kohberger agreed to declare himself guilty of all positions in the murders of four students of the University of Idaho, saving him from the death penalty, according to a letter sent to the relatives of the victims who inform them about the guilt agreement.
Kohberger-who was accused of four first-degree murder positions and a robbery charge in relation to the 2022 murders of fellow Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle and Kernodle’s boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, will be presented to four life sentences for the murder and the maximum count of 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the 10 years of the
Prosecutors anticipate that the sentence will take place at the end of July, while Kohberger enters the guilty statement as expected at a change of guilt hearing that is scheduled for Wednesday, according to the letter received by the family of one of the victims.
Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of fatally stabbing four students from the Idaho University, is escorted to the Court for a hearing in the District Court of County of Latah, on September 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho.
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Kohberger will renounce everything right to appeal, according to the agreement. The State will also seek restitution for victims and their families, according to the agreement.
The plea arrives only weeks before the Kohberger test began. The jury selection began on August 4 and the opening arguments were scheduled for August 18.
Prosecutors told the families that Kohberger’s defense team approached the state last week asking them to present an offer. The prosecutors said they later met with the family members available last week, “weighs the right way forward and made a formal offer” to Kohberger.
“This resolution is our sincere attempt to seek justice for their family,” prosecutors wrote in the letter. “This agreement ensures that the defendant is convicted, will spend the rest of his life in prison and will not be able to put it to you the other families through the uncertainty of decades of post-conditions, appeals. His views weighed a lot in our decision-making process, and we hope he can appreciate why we believe that this resolution is better of justice.”
A photo published by Kaylee Goncalves a few days before their deaths show the students of the University of Idaho Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves.
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But the Goncalves family is upset by the plea, claiming that the office of the “badly driven” County County prosecutor and ran the agreement.
“They vaguely mentioned a possible supplication on Friday, without seeking our contribution, and presented the plea on Sunday,” said the family in a statement. “Latah County should be ashamed of his prosecutor’s office. Four wonderful young people lost their lives, however, the families of the victims were treated as opponents from the beginning. We were not even called by the statement; we received an email with an attached letter. On July 2,”
The family statement continued: “After more than two years, this is how it concludes with a secret agreement and a hurried effort to close the case without any contribution of the families of the victims in the details of the declaration.
Idaho University said in a statement on Monday: “We keep the families of the victims in our hearts as each one treats this result in their own way.”
“No result can replace what they lost,” said the university. “We will never forget the four incredible lives taken.”
Four students from the Idaho University were killed in a house outside the campus in King Road in Moscow, Idaho, in November 2022.
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The four students of the Idaho University were stabbed to death at the girls’ house outside the campus in the early hours of November 13, 2022.
According to documents, two roommates survived, including a roommate who told the authorities in the midst of the night who saw a man spending the house in the house. The fourth partner described the intruder as “not very muscular, but athically built with dense eyebrows,” according to the documents.
The shocking quadruple murders shook the small university city of Moscow, catapulted the interest of the national media and launched a human hunt for almost seven weeks.
In December 2022, Kohberger, Ph.D. of Criminology. Student of the nearby Washington State University at that time, he was arrested at his parents’ house in Pennsylvania.
The DNA that combines with Kohberger’s was found in a Ka-bar knife pod for one of the victim’s bodies, prosecutors said.
The defense lawyers have said that Kohberger was driving only the night the murders occurred.
