Forensic Expert Questions Knife Sheath Chain of Custody

0:00It's April 25th. Welcome in. This is Canada News Today, where local news meets AI. I'm Corey with the story. A forensic expert for Brian Kohlberger's defense team called out issues with the chain of custody on a key knife sheath found at the University of Idaho Staving Seam. That sheath had a single male DNA hit matching Kohlberger, linking him to the November 2022 murders of four students. The expert, Brent Turvey, said the evidence bag mis-required signatures for every handler calling it manufactured after the fact. The sheath bounced between Moscow police and Idaho state police before lab testing on November 16th, 2022. Kohlberger's team hoped to block it from trial, but the case wrapped up last July when the 31-year-old criminology grad student pled guilty to. Four first-degree murders. He got four life sentences, back-to-back, no parole, dodging the death penalty. Local lawyers and cops pushed back hard on Turvey's claims. They say electronic barcodes and seals prove the chain solid enough for court and testimony

1:03could fill any gaps. Challenges like this rarely kill evidence, admissibility jurors just way it during deliberations. Photos released post-police show an unbroken seal signed by lead detective, Brent Payne, on November 14th, 2022, plus a later sticker. Tracing handoffs. Defense attorneys are still dissecting lessons from the case at a confidential conference this weekend. Bottom line. Even if poked a trial, this wouldn't have derailed the DNA evidence or the outcome. Kohlberger owned up, and the evidence pointed straight. At him. Case closed, but the debate lingers on how Thai police docs got to be.