Judge Rejects Bryan Kohberger’s Request to Dismiss Idaho Murders Case

Bryan Kohberger lost a long-shot bid to get the murder case against him totally dismissed on Thursday, with a judge calling his defense team’s arguments “creative,” but ultimately unconvincing.

Kohberger, 28, faces four counts of murder and one count of felony burglary in connection to the November stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students. He was arrested late the next month, and had a not guilty plea entered on his behalf in May after he chose to stand silent. He waived his right to a speedy trial in August, indefinitely deferring a trial that otherwise would have started on Oct. 2.

The former criminology student returned to court on Thursday for two hearings on separate motions to dismiss filed in August by his legal team, who cited grand jury bias, inadmissible and insufficient evidence, and prosecutorial misconduct “by withholding exculpatory evidence.”

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