Bryan Kohberger’s trial will include some possibly key evidence.
An Idaho judge has denied several motions, per NBC News, from Kohberger’s defense team that sought to suppress evidence—including DNA evidence—which prosecutors say links him to the 2022 murders of University of Idaho students Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.
In multiple rulings from Feb. 19, NBC News reports, Ada County Judge Steven Hippler allowed for cell phone and email records, surveillance footage and Kohberger’s Amazon purchase history to be used in trial, as well as DNA evidence concerning the button of a knife sheath that police say was found near two of the bodies.
During the investigation, per the outlet, law enforcement obtained DNA from the home of Kohberger’s parents that allegedly tied him to the knife sheath. Later, police say, the DNA also proved to be a statistical match to a 2022 swab of Kohberger’s cheek.
Kohberger’s defense team had called for the DNA evidence—which was retrieved from trash at his parent’s house and allegedly linked to the knife sheath, per prosecution—to be suppressed under the argument that law enforcement had violated the PhD candidate’s constitutional rights by not obtaining a warrant before conducting the trash pull.
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