A judge granted Kohberger's lawyer's motion to appoint a second death penalty-qualified attorney to the defense team.
The Idaho Public Defense Commission maintains a roster of defense attorneys that are qualified to represent defendants in cases where the death penalty may be or has been sought or imposed. That roster was updated earlier this month, but was not available on the commission's website early Thursday.While it's not yet clear who will determine who the second death-qualified attorney in Kohberger's case will be, Cherkasky pointed to some things that will likely factor into that decision.
"You really have to look for availability," he said."Counsel in public defender offices have maximum case loads that they can have at any one given time and so what I think is going to be the primary consideration is who's available for this. "And then secondarily, I think it's going to be who can really come into the team to be a good second chair." However, he also said there was a chance that the second attorney could end up leading the defense team.
Eight people—seven men and one woman—are on death row in Idaho, according to the Idaho Department of Correction. Idaho's last execution, of Richard Leavitt, took place in 2012. Lethal injection is the sole approved method of execution in the state, although
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