Kohberger attended Washington State University at the time of the murders, with his former lawyer in Pennsylvania saying that he was 'eager to be exonerated.'
, the suspect in the Idaho murders case, have filed new court documents seeking to have a roommate of the victims' testify at his upcoming preliminary hearing.
Over the weekend, Kohberger's defense team filed a court document seeking to have Bethany Funke, one of the roommates of the four murdered University of Idaho students, testify. Funke, along with Dylan Mortensen, was one of the surviving roommates who found Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20, and Xana Kernodle, 20, fatally stabbed in the off-campus residence at 1122 King Road in Moscow, Idaho, on November 13, 2022.
. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony burglary. Kohberger was attending Washington State University at the time of the murders, with his former lawyer in Pennsylvania saying that his client was"eager to be exonerated."obtained the court documents filed by Kohberger's legal team this weekend, which included a section from Richard Bitonti, a criminal investigator hired by the defense.
"There is also no authority for an Idaho criminal defendant to summon a Nevada witness to an Idaho matter without a hearing and there is no authority to summon a Nevada witness to an Idaho matter without a Nevada Judge making a finding of materiality, necessity and the lack of undue hardship," the document, obtained by
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