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Immediately after Bryan Kohberger’s arrest on December 30, 2022, the public knew remarkably little about the man accused of murdering Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin. Kohberger was 28 years old, originally from Pennsylvania and was pursuing a Ph.D. in criminology at Washington State University, only about ten miles from Moscow. He had previously earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology and criminal justice at DeSales University, where he had studied under forensic psychologist Katherine Ramsland. Authorities said he had been arrested at his parents’ home in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary. Beyond that, police revealed almost nothing about what had led them to him, and the arrest affidavit remained sealed until he was returned to Idaho. The sudden identification of a criminology doctoral student as the suspect therefore created as many questions as it answered.

At that moment, there was no publicly established motive, no known relationship between Kohberger and any of the four victims, and no explanation for why investigators believed he had entered 1122 King Road. Authorities had already spent more than six weeks pursuing thousands of tips and searching for a white Hyundai Elantra seen near the crime scene, but they initially refused to explain whether that vehicle had led them to Kohberger or what forensic evidence connected him to the house. Reports quickly emerged that the FBI had been watching him in Pennsylvania before the arrest, but the crucial details involving the knife sheath DNA, cellphone records, surveillance footage and the Elantra were not disclosed until the probable-cause affidavit became public on January 5, 2023. For those first several days, the public essentially knew Kohberger’s name, age, academic background and charges, while nearly every important question about evidence, motive, targeting and how police had identified him remained unanswered.



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We need to know about Brian Coburger. Today's article is from Heavy. Headline Brian Coburger. Idaho Murder Suspect. Five Fast Facts. You need to know. Brian Coburger is the suspect and criminology graduate student who was accused in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students who were killed in Moscow, Idaho. Coburger 28 was arrested on December 30th of 2022 in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Court record show. His name was the first was first confirmed by WPVI, a Philadelphia news station. The accused man's full name is Brian Christopher Coburger. According to news nation reporter Brian Enten who posted the suspect's mugshot on Twitter. And you'll be able to check it out for yourself inside of this link. It'll be posted. But I'm sure most of you have already seen it by this point. If you're looking at the story, the mugshot is everywhere now.

And you look at the guy and you want to say, oh, yeah, this dude looks like a stone cold killer. And in hindsight, obviously, we can say that. But this could have been a man standing right next to you at the store or somebody, obviously, who could have been sitting directly next to you in a college class. And this is what I'm talking about when I say evil is everywhere folks. None of us are immune from it. It doesn't matter if you're in Moscow, Idaho or if you're in the middle of New York City, you have to keep your head on a swivel, unfortunately, because we have a hyperveilin society. However, that wouldn't have mattered in this case. They were murdered in their homes in their beds. And what this does, at least for me, is it confirms that it was somebody that wasn't in their circle. Somebody that was on the outer edges, somebody that didn't even go to this college. This person was attending Washington State University as a graduate student. And that campus is only what eight miles away from Moscow. So it's not like he was far away from them,

like living in Pennsylvania, meaning this person. So he probably, and this is my speculation, by the way, probably saw them out sometime and took a liking to them. And we all know how that ends up when somebody is seriously deranged like this person, obviously allegedly is. Co burger is facing extradition to Idaho on murder charges, the WPVI new station reports. Co burger and all rights,ville, Pennsylvania native is a graduate student at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington, not far from Moscow. According to the WSU website, Co burger is pursuing his PhD in criminal justice and criminology. Now we're going to read a post from Reddit that this man posted about seven months ago. And it's pretty chilling in hindsight. But we're going to do that at the end of this episode. The deaths of Royal the campus town, the four friends were found inside a home, according to previous statements from police who created a website to debunk rumors and give out

information as the community was gripped in fear. The deaths were previously ruled homicides. Police said, so here's what you need to know about Brian co burger. One, co burger was taken into custody in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, reports say NBC Philadelphia first broke the story that a man was in custody in the Idaho murders and later also named him as Brian Christopher co burger. Co burger was referred to in the NBC Philadelphia story as a person of interest. Authorities have not yet confirmed the arrest. NBC New York called the man a suspect in its headline. Now all of these sources, these outlets, they have a lot of well placed sources when it comes to cases like this, murder, police sources, people in the prosecutor's office. So when it comes to stuff like this coming out, you can be reasonably sure most times that it's at the very least very close to what's really going on. And my guess is that this is the person that they've been looking for. However, I will

throw in this little tidbit. I was reading earlier from some sources, including Jennifer Coffin that an accomplice might have been arrested as well. Now I can't confirm that. And as of now, that's just speculation and scuttle but but it's something to keep on the horizon considering what went down here and how they've said that it could be multiple people throughout this whole entire thing. According to the NBC Philadelphia story, which broke on December 30th, co burger was taken into custody near the Polkano Mountains in connection with the November 13th, 2022 Moscow homicides. Number two, Moscow Idaho police announced they are holding a press conference on December 30th, 2022. In a press release posted to their Facebook page, Moscow police announced that they will be holding a 1 p.m. press conference on Friday, December 30th, 2022 in the city council chambers at 206 East Third Street of Moscow City Hall. That announcement came on the morning

news broke about co burgers arrest. Police Chief James Fry will give an update of the ongoing investigation into the quadruple homicide that occurred at 1122 King Road on Sunday, November 13th. The press release says officials from the Moscow Police Department, Idaho State Police, the city of Moscow and the University of Idaho will be present. So it's obviously a significant press conference where I would expect them to announce that this is their suspect and they're going to continue moving forward with the extra edition process to get this man in Idaho to face the justice that he allegedly deserves. The police statement did not address the NBC Philadelphia story about a suspects arrest, but it said, please hold all media inquiries until after the news conference. All four victims were students at the University of Idaho. Please respect the privacy of the victims family, friends and loved ones as the Moscow Police Department investigates this tragic event.

A police news release stated, and I hope that people who are out there pointing their finger at folks learn a good hard lesson from this one. You shouldn't be out there pointing your finger at people without evidence. Now you can say, and I think X, Y and Z happened at the crime scene, but to point your finger at somebody specifically without any evidence is just absolutely ridiculous. And there's a whole lot of people who did that once again, throughout this case, who are going to probably face some lawsuits. And I even remember a reading from that FBI agent, Gilliam, whatever his first name is about how Steve gone solvus was a suspect and how he might have done all of these murders. Imagine that. Imagine having the audacity to get on a platform, get on like Fox News or Newsmax. If you want to consider that an outlet even and say that sort of thing with no evidence, nothing to back it up. So hopefully throughout all of this, people are going to learn. And hopefully there's going to be some lawsuits. If I was Kaylee's ex boyfriend, Jack, I'd be suing the shit out

of people. Believe it. Imagine trying to grieve your ex girlfriend who you've been with for all these years. And then all of a sudden you find out that she's murdered. And then on top of that, people want to jump on the internet and point their finger at you even after you've been cleared. Or how about hoodie guy? If I was hoodie guy, another person that should probably file some lawsuits and don't even get me started on the tarot reader. I mean, imagine the tarot reader, how she going to spin this one. She's looking at a fat ass lawsuit and she even doubled down on the nonsense. And it's all about driving traffic. It's all about the clicks. It's all about the engagement. It's trying to draw the CPMs and doing anything to do that. Well, here's an idea. Have better content and you won't have to rely on tarot cards or bullshit snake oil grifting to try and get people to tune in. But there's always going to be snake oil salesman. There's always going to be grifters and there's always going to be people who are looking to capitalize on tragedies such as this. And they came out in the boat load when we're talking about what happened in Moscow.

Now, as far as the rest of the facts here, the other three, they're just going over the case a little bit more. So we're not going to rehash that stuff talking about, you know, the initial phone call, the unconscious students. We've already been all over all of that. Your path to pharmacy can be closer than you think. West Coast University's hybrid doctor of pharmacy program can be completed in as little as 33 months and no bachelor's degree is required to apply. If you've started pharmacy coursework elsewhere, WCU may accept eligible transfer credits to help students keep moving forward. Learn online, train hands on at our Center for Graduate Studies in Los Angeles, and prepare for real-world pharmacy practice. West Coast University, as real as it gets, visit westcoastuniversity.edu. WCU cannot guarantee employment. Looking at Verbo Vacation Rental means you get Verbo Care in 24-7 life support, verified reviews from real guests and top-rated homes with the love by guest filter. I just booked my Verbo because there was a sweet line for it. We all have our reasons. If you know, give Verbo. Terms apply, cverbo.com slash trust for details. Looking for the best of Verbo, discover

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the story behind your most recent criminal offense with an emphasis on your thoughts and feelings throughout your experience. In the event that your most recent offense was not one that led to a conviction, you may still participate. Additional surveys are included after the open-ended section as the best understand your unique traits. The study should take about 15 to 20 minutes to fully complete. Now, tell me that isn't chilling in hindsight and why would Reddit wipe that? I can't stand when they do this kind of thing. Anytime there's some kind of crime, the first thing they do is wipe social media. Why is that? What are they trying to hide? Your identity and all answers provided are completely confidential and the link to the survey is also an anonymous link. This research has been approved by the Dessiles University IRB. Participants must be 18 years of age or older. If you opt to participate, you may terminate participation at any time for any reason. If you have any questions about this research,

you may contact the research team via email, student investigator Brian Coburger, and it also provides an email address where he can be contacted. I thought that would be a very interesting ad to the catalog. To this episode, considering I doubt people are going to be talking about it in the actual media, considering it was wiped so quickly. When I found out his name, I hopped on and I started looking at different social media sites and stuff, seeing what I could find and what I could screen grab before it got wiped. I found a few things and we'll see what else gets wiped. And we'll also see what we get from the press conference this afternoon and we'll go from there. But the good news is folks, slide into this weekend, sliding into the new year on a happier note at least with somebody in custody for these vile disgusting murders. All right folks, that's going to do it for this one. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that at bobby kapuchi at proton mail dot com. That's B O B B Y C A P U C C I at proton mail dot com.

You can also find me on Twitter at B O B B Y underscore C A P U C C I. The link that I discussed can be found in the description box. Selling your credit. What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. Ever since Brian Coburger was announced as the suspect in the murders in Moscow, we have heard from people who knew him previously, who have told us about Brian Coburger's past and what he was up to as far as his behavior before all of this went down. Well, now we're learning a little bit more obviously as things continue to evolve and everything we learn, it really just all looks bad for Brian Coburger. And when you hear reports about his behavior towards women and towards other people, well, it just continues to add layer upon layer of bad news for Brian Coburger. So today we have an article from the US son and the headline dark claims disturbing details emerge about Idaho murder suspect Brian Coburger and his treatment

of women. This article was authored by a forest, Mick Farland. And we have heard several times now about Brian Coburger and his creepy ass behavior following a woman out to the car, grading people that are women more harshly than men and just being a general all around creep. Idaho murder suspect Brian Coburger allegedly made for boating sexist comments toward his female colleagues before he was fired sources have said Coburger 28 allegedly graded his female students harsher than men while working as a criminology graduate assistant at Washington State University, according to a new report. Well, we know that he graded harsher. We've heard that previously and we also know that according to these people that were around him, he was also a sexist. And what I find interesting about these reports is that they were made prior to him being named as the suspect. So this wasn't just a piling on. Now I'm sure there was some of that in the after

math of all of this, you know, people coming out of the woodwork, giving their commentary about them knowing Brian Coburger, you know, 25 years ago or whatever. But when you're talking about recent relationships and you're talking about his current behavior while he's a teaching assistant at Washington State, I think that that information of him being this way currently recently is a lot more damning than him being a drug addict previously or a creep previously or a weirdo or whatever because there's a lot of people who are very awkward when they're young and then they grow up and they're not awkward anymore. But then there's people like Brian Coburger who are not awkward, they might seem awkward, but really they're just fucked up. The graduate student was charged in late December with the brutal stabbings of roommates Kaley Gonsalves, Madison Mogen, and Zana Kernodal along with Zana's boyfriend Ethan Chapin on November 13th. One month after four students were found heartlessly slashed to death outside the University of Idaho campus, Coburger was let go

from the program. However, it was not for his alleged involvement in the killings. Former colleagues have told news nation that he was known for making snide comments toward women in the program, and this day and age that's not going to work out so well for you. With everybody being so hyper focused on other people's behavior, you better show up to work and just do your job and go home at this point, especially if you're working on a college campus where everybody's wilded and out already. Coburger allegedly told females at Washington State University that men would take all of their jobs because they were not as smart. Someone associated with the murder suspect told the outlet. The anonymous sources claimed that multiple people filed complaints against him after he harshly graded female students and a harassment training seminar was even held at the school. Now if you're the cause of your place of employment having to hold a harassment seminar, chances are you're not going to last too long at that company. And that's what happened with

Brian Coburger. If it wasn't for these murders, he wouldn't have been able to keep this job anyway because the facade was slipping, right? The mask was falling and that second face, the hidden face that I always talk about here. Well, it was being revealed. Coburger was let go in December of 2022 after he had not made progress regarding professionalism, his termination letter seen by news nation states. The letter did not address any of the sexism allegations. According to the letter, Coburger allegedly had an altercation with the professor. He was assisting John Snyder on September 23rd, a professor allegedly emailed Coburger about the ways in which you had failed to meet your expectations as a TA thus far in the semester. By October 21st, the outlet reports, so he was having all of these issues leading up to the murders in Moscow. And like I said previously, I believe that the issues at work ended up being that tipping point where Brian Coburger finally said,

now's the time. And whatever dam he had built inside of his brain to hold back the evil, well, it broke. The termination letter stated that department leaders met with Coburger to discuss an improvement plan on November 2nd, which was 11 days before the students were stabbed. After the Idaho students were murdered, Coburger also allegedly was involved in a second altercation with professor Snyder on December 9th, according to the letter. So you see what I'm talking about here? How this could have been the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back and set Brian Coburger in the motion? Mad at the professor, mad at everything that's going on, and then finally just snapping and doing what he allegedly did. Other people close to the matter have spoken out about alleged interactions with Coburger as he remains in jail awaiting trial. In one instance, Coburger allegedly followed a female student to her car according to two people familiar with the situation who spoke to the New York Times. No, nothing weird about that. Imagine your daughter

calling you and saying, Hey, Dad, my professor was following me to my car. I'm sure all of you dads out there would react fantastically to that news. However, the university's investigation didn't find Coburger guilty of any wrongdoing in these complaints. A local brewery that Coburger frequented told news nation that female workers had complained about his inappropriate behavior in the past. They had even flagged his ID in the system to warn of his past action sources said. Coburger stands accused of fatally stabbing three young women, Kelley Goncalves, Madison Mogen, and Zana Kernotal, as well as Zana's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, on November 13th. Hi, this is Dave Roberts. Heading into summer without a medical emergency kit, that's a risk. Summer colds can linger and getting sick on vacation can derail everything. That's why everyone needs a medical emergency kit. It includes doctor prescribed medications to treat common and serious illnesses. So if you wake up sick, at home, or on the road,

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court documents. That's the blueprint to what's going on here as far as inside of the courtroom. We don't get a look inside of the courtroom, but following along with those documents, it gives us an idea at the direction things are going at the very least. Psst! In an unsealed arrest warrant, police described the list of belongings they recovered from his parents' home where he was arrested. Detectives took in four medical-style gloves, a black champion sweatshirt, black face masks, size 13 Nike shoes, a knife, black gloves, and the black hat during co-burgers arrest, the document states. After he was let go from Washington State University, co-burger drove all the way back to his parents' home in Pennsylvania with his father. Police in Pennsylvania are currently looking into any other potential homicides that could be linked to co-burger, according to reports. Co-burger was arrested on December 30th and has maintained his innocence, though he has yet to submit a formal plea. And as far as looking

for cold cases that are connected to Brian co-burger, I don't know how successful they'll be at finding those in Pennsylvania especially. I would think that if co-burger has done this before, it might have been in the lead-up to murdering these kids in their house in Moscow. So perhaps look on the west coast for these kinds of murders. Now we know that the juteons up in Oregon, they suffered the same kind of attack, and while they ruled out Brian co-burger, that attack and the attack in Moscow were very, very similar. Somebody sneaks in in the middle of the night like that, and then they kill people, they don't take anything, and then they just slip out and they use a knife to do it. So that means that there's another killer out there if it's not Brian co-burger who's responsible for what happened to the juteons. So that's not a very comforting thought either, because whoever did that to them is obviously capable of doing it again. But the cold case situation with Brian co-burger, I don't know if they're

going to be able to find anything as far as him being connected to murders inside of Pennsylvania. I believe that he always harbored these sorts of ideas, these sorts of fantasies if you will, but once he got out to Washington and once he started working in that TA job, and things started escalating as far as he selected a target, which who I think now at this point was a Madison Mogan, but once all of that started to come into play, that's when things really kicked in for co-burger, and that's when that second face made the appearance. And in my opinion, it all came to a head after he had these problems at work. And after all of those years of keeping those demons pressed down deep inside, Brian co-burger finally let them out. And according to the government, the massacre at 1122 King Road in Moscow was the result. All right folks, that's going to do it for this one. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the

description box. What's up everyone? And welcome back to the program. Yesterday we heard that Brian co-burger and his legal team were accusing the FBI of intimidating their witness. Well, we're now learning that the witness may not have been completely truthful when it comes to their declaration and the affidavit that they gave. And that came after prosecutors noticed an irregularity with some of the testimony from the DNA expert that was called by Brian co-burgers team Gabriella Vargas. So like I said yesterday, remember the accusations that are being leveled by co-burgers team are just that accusations. It's the same as Murdoz legal team saying that there was all kinds of prosecutorial misconduct. That sounds really bad and it sounds like it's a foothold for Alec Murdoz, but is it really or are they just allegations that are being thrown out there to help muddy the

water? Because remember at this point it's a game of narratives. Both sides are thinking about potential jurors and what potential jurors might think or say once the jury is in-paneled and co-burger is in front of them. So if co-burgers lawyers can sow some seeds of doubt with a potential jury that there is some prosecutorial misconduct, so much the better for Brian co-burgers team. But the problem is it doesn't seem like there's any there there. So let's dive into this article from Fox News and let's try and sort this all out. Headline FBI investigates key witness for Brian co-burgers defense. This article was authored by Michael Ruiz and it was published by Fox News. Rather than cross-examining an expert witness for the defense of Idaho, murder suspect Brian co-burger, Laita County prosecutor Bill Thompson flagged the FBI to investigate her following some contradictory testimony. Co-burgers defense has alleged grand jury irregularities,

prosecutorial misconduct, and has attempted to discredit DNA methods used in the case. Gabriella Vargas, an expert on genetic genealogy, testified on the DNA issues during a hearing on August 18th. Days later the feds knocked on her door, according to co-burgers attorneys. Now look, if you give false statements in the court and you're under oath, that's contempt. You can go to jail for that. I'm not saying that's what she did here. I don't know, but if you're not being truthful and you're on the witness stand, that certainly contempt of court and you're looking at a jail sentence. So is it really witness intimidation as Brian co-burgers lawyers attempted to assert or is the FBI just going to shake some trees and doing what their job description tells them they should be doing? And for those of you out there who might be new listeners, I'm not a big fan of the FBI. I'm not in the business of defending them here, but

right is right and wrong is wrong and you have to call balls and strikes how you see them. And it doesn't seem to me that the FBI is out of line for talking to a witness who might have purged herself in open court. I would think that's something that they would go and investigate. Last night she was visited by two FBI agents and interrogated about her testimony and the findings of her declaration. And Taylor co-burgers lead defense attorney said during an August hearing that in our view impacts Mr. co-burgers do process rights. And if it wasn't because her declaration didn't add up with her testimony, I'd be much more inclined to give the nod to co-burger here and say that his team has the right of it. Anytime the government is harassing a witness, not a good thing, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Now that we're getting some more details about this, certainly seems that Brian co-burgers team is once again playing some games. When we heard of that, I reached out to investigators and asked, can you find out what is going on?

Thompson said, the FBI, indeed undertook an investigation and other reports are that Ms. Vargas claimed that some of what was in her declaration she had inadvertently agreed to or signed without fully reading. Now why in the hell are you signing any kind of court document, any document, by the way, without fully reading it? Especially if you are some kind of expert witness for the defense. I'm sure that the prosecutors are going to have a field day with this and my guess is that Ms. Vargas here is not going to be called as a witness when we get to the trial. Because if you're leaving things out in your declaration, the prosecutors are going to have a field day with that during cross-examination and the jury, well, I'm sure the jury would love to hear all about how you have no idea what you're talking about. The expert testimony had other controversy with prosecutors asking the court for permission to delay cross-examination to a later date

over a snafu with PowerPoint slides. And that's relatively common during the process for one side or the other to object to the way something's being presented. We saw it during the valotrial. They tried to get some of the PowerPoint slides out of evidence because they say that they weren't prepared correctly or they didn't have time to look at them, you know, a whole host of reasons as to why this evidence shouldn't be admitted into the court. The exchange happened during an August 23 hearing but resurfaced last week after Thompson declined to cross-examination Vargas and another DNA expert and former FBI agent Tracy Walder told Vaughn Crime that such an interview is a typical. The FBI declined to comment but legal experts tell Fox News Digital that circling back for an interview with a witness who may have signed something she didn't read is a permissible move. Well yeah, the court is going to want to know what the hell's going on here. Why is an expert

witness signing a declaration that she didn't read or she doesn't understand? Does that sound like a good idea to anybody out there? So why the hell is this lady doing it? And for me it really throws a whole cloud and shadow over Colbergers defense team. If you guys can't bring an expert to the table who can't even maintain basic clerical work with her avid, do you really think anyone's going to be giving you the benefit of the doubt when you trot out these experts? I don't think it's entirely unusual for prosecutors to direct their investigators agents of law enforcement to follow up with the witness. Said Ed Wina Elcox, a Boise based defense attorney who has not connected to the case. Unless something untoward happened, mere contact and follow-up is certainly not out of bounds. And of course, the way that Colbergers team was serving it up was that she was being intimidated. The G-men showed up and their suits in their black cars, you know, the whole thing. But really what was happening is it was a follow-up interview that was

ordered by Bill Thompson and the prosecutor's office. And it was due to the fact that there were irregularities in the affidavit and the statements made by Ms. Vargas. That all seems pretty cut and dry to me. Colberger was pursuing a PhD in criminology at Washington State University on November 13th, 2022, when four students at the neighboring University of Idaho were stabbed to death at 4 a.m. in a home invasion attack. The victims were close friends, Madison Mogan, Kayley Goncalves, Zana Kernotal, and Ethan Chapin. On December 30th, police arrested Colberger at his parents' house in Pennsylvania. They seized the alleged suspect's vehicle on the property and had discovered familial DNA in the trash that prosecutors alleged matches the sample recovered from a knife sheath left under Mogan's body. The 28-year-old Colberger faces four charges

of first degree murder and one of felony burglary. He could face the death penalty if convicted. Judge John Judge entered a not guilty plea on Colberger's behalf during his arrangement in May. A trial initially set to begin in October has been postponed after Colberger waved his right to a speedy trial last month. Well, there was no doubt that this was going to be delayed. I said that from the very beginning. The timeline that we were dealing with was very optimistic. And when you have this much discovery, this much evidence, and this much rancor on both sides, it's not going to be an easy process. It's going to take time, and both sides are going to jockey for a position. And every time we see one of these court filings, going back and forth, with these sorts of accusations, you better believe there's a lot more to it than just making the filing. And if you need an example of that, just look how many articles were published yesterday after Colberger's team asserted that the FBI was tampering with their

witness. Meanwhile, we hadn't heard from the state yet. All we had was the assertions of Colberger's team. And now we're hearing from the state why they did this and why they dispatched the FBI to go talk to Mrs. Vargas. And when you look at the whole entire scenario, it makes a lot of sense. And certainly, at least in my opinion, doesn't seem to be something that would be even in the realm of misconduct. And I highly doubt that the court is going to look at it as misconduct either. Now, Judge Judge hasn't made a ruling one way or the other. But once he does make a ruling and an order or a document hits the docket, we'll definitely get it added to the catalog. But on the initial assessment of these claims that there was witness tampering or that the witness was being bullied, I don't see any evidence for that, at least according to what's been made public. So we'll keep an eye on things and when more information is available, we'll certainly get it added to the catalog. Alright, everybody, that's going to do it for this one. All of the information

that goes with this episode can be found in the description box. It's fall in Jeep country, and during the driving to fall sales events get a great deal on four by fours that refuse to be contained, like Jeep Wrangler, confidence built into every drive with the most awarded SUV ever, Jeep Grand Cherokee, and freedom that can't be denied with the open air freedom and Jeep gladiator. After 85 years, it's no surprise that Jeep became America's SUV brand, get a great deal during the Jeep driving to fall sales event. Jeep is one more awards over its lifetime than any other SUV brand, Jeep and the Jeep Grill or Register Trademarks of FCAUS LLC. What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. In this episode, we're going to dive back into those core documents, and this time, we're going to take a look at a few new filings that have hit the docket. The first one we're going to look at is the Motion to enlarge time to file, pretrial motions, and memorandum in support. Case number CR29-22-2805. Motion to enlarge time to

file pretrial motions and memorandum in support. State of Idaho Plaintiff versus Brian Colbergor, the defendant. Comes now. Brian C. Colbergor, buy and throw his attorney, and C. Taylor, public defender, hereby moves the court for an order enlarging the time for filing of pretrial motions in this manner. Procedural History. The indictment for the above entitled matter was filed on May 16, 2023. Council for the defendant filed its initial requests for discovery on January 10, 2023. Council for the defendant filed a motion to make available the record of all proceedings of the Grand Jerry on May 19, 2023. Based on the amount of time, it will likely take to receive and review all Grand Jerry materials for this matter. Council will need additional time to file pretrial motions, pursuant the Idaho Criminal Rule 12, and remember they've also received

like three terabytes of information from the prosecution. So that whole entire October court date, I don't see it happening. I know we've talked about this a little bit previously, but I don't see how that October 2nd trial date is going to be met. Request. Council requests enlargement of time to file pretrial motions of at least 28 days from the receipt of the requested Grand Jerry materials and other discovery materials previously requested. As of the time of this filing of this motion to enlarge time, Council for defendant has not received any of the grand jury materials. The review of such materials are critical to the adequate preparation of the defendant's defense and will cause Council for the defendant to likely file pretrial motions regarding various evidentiary issues, challenges to the Grand Jerry and possible motions for suppression of evidence. And remember it was a judge in Idaho who took the death penalty off the table for Lori Vallow

over prosecutorial missteps. So that's certainly a possibility here if the prosecution is an on point. Council makes this a request for the enlargement of time based on the belief that the defendant will be subject to prejudice, harmful error and inadequate defense without the opportunity to review Grand Jerry materials prior to the filing of pretrial motions. Conclusions. Based on the foregoing reasons, Council requests enlargement of time to file pretrial motions. If argument is required on the matter, the defendant requests 10 minutes time. This was dated on the 19th of May of 2023 and signed by Anne Taylor. The next document we have is the Court Minutes that have to do with the gag order and Shannon Gray, hearing start time 1021. This being the time set pursuant to order of court for a scheduling conference in this case. Court noted the presence of Council

and defendant appearing in person in Laetak County District Court Room number three. Defendant is in Laetak County custody 1021. Court noted all participating parties, court informed all parties. This is the time set for a scheduling conference to address the motions on the non dissemination order 1023 AM. Court noted Mr. Carone will represent the AP clients for this hearing 1023 AM. There was a connectivity issue with Zoom 1026. Court recognized Mr. Shannon Gray represents the Goncalves family and then noted it would not hold a motion to compel hearing previously set for 11 and will address those issues at this hearing 1027. Court was in recess to allow everyone to connect properly by Zoom 1029. Court resumed on the record all parties being present as before 1029. Court noted it would address Mr. Carone's client's motion to vacate the amended

non dissemination order filed on May 1, 2023 as well as the motion to intervene filed on May 1, 2023. Court noted the issues are now in front of this court. Court also noted it would like the parties and Mr. Carone to address the issues of cameras in the courtroom 1031. Mr. Carone directed statements to court regarding scheduling nothing counsel has briefed the issues for both the Idaho Supreme Court as well as this court. Mr. Carone clarified counsel has not briefed the issue of cameras in the courtroom and will need to submit a separate brief if necessary 1031 court noted it will address cameras in the courtroom at the same time as the non dissemination order. Court noted it may be better to hold the hearing in person. There being no objection courts set a motion hearing for June 27, 2023 at 130 pm in person 1032. Carone stated he could appear in person if court is

anticipating hearing from witnesses for an evidentiary hearing there may be some witnesses that would need to appear by zoom 1033 court noted Mr. Carone could file declarations court noted if there will be a lot of testimony it could start as early as 10 a.m. 1034. Mr. Carone addressed court's concerns and stated counsel's position on the evidentiary issues 1035 court noted it would keep the hearing for 130 pm 1034 court address Mr. Gray stating for the sake of judicial efficiency it would keep the hearings together 1035 Mr. Gray directed statements to the court and stated his client's motion is different from the AP's motion Mr. Gray moved for an earlier hearing for his motion by the end of the week court recognized this was short notice for everyone and reviewed potential dates 1036 Mr. Lodson informed court defendants counsel would be prepared to put on evidentiary presentation on

June 27 1038 court reviewed the prior proceedings in the case and acknowledged Mr. Gray's clients have been waiting a long time for their motion to be heard due to the AP's filing with the Idaho Supreme Court 1038 Mr. Gray addressed the court regarding his client's motion Mr. Gray moved for the court to address his motion on June 9 2023 1042 there being no objection court set Mr. Gray's motion for June 9 2023 at 10 30 am in person 1042 Mr. Carone stated he would like to have the AP's motion set for a hearing at June 9 2023 hearing as well 1043 call a que between court and counsel regarding AP's motion 1045 based on Mr. Carone's request court moved the AP hearing from June 27 2023 to June 9 2023 at 130 pm Mr. Lodson stated the defense may not be prepared to put on an evidentiary

presentation by that time 1046 call a que was had between court and counsel 1048 court confirm Mr. Gray's motion will be heard on June 9 2023 at 10 30 am and Mr. Carone's motions will be heard on June 9 2023 at 130 pm both in person 1048 court directed counsel briefs should be filed by June 2nd 2023 responses filed by June 6 2023 and if replies if any by June 8 2023 which would include the issues of broadcasting and cameras in the courtroom court noted it would send a briefing schedule 1050 court excused Mr. Gray and Mr. Carone 1050 court addressed the defendant's motion to compel as well as defendant's motion requesting release of grand jury materials under qualified protective order and motion to make available the record of all proceedings of the grand jury

pursuant to i.c.r 6.2 court noted it granted defendant's motion to enlarge time file pretrial motions and memorandum in support 1051 am Ms. Taylor moved to set a hearing on motion to compel and subsequent motions for the week of June 26 there there being no objection courts at a motion to compel hearing for June 27 2023 at 130 pm 1052 Mr. Thompson noted it had not received copies of the other two motions but will be prepared to address them on June 27 2023 1053 court noted both Miss Alisa Massoff and Miss Ingrid Beatty have been observing this hearing by Zoom hearing end time 1053 am and the final document we're going to look at is the court minutes for Brian Coburgers' Arraignment case number CR 29-22-2805 hearing start time 909 am

this being the time set pursuant so order of the court for a district court arrangement in this case court noted the presence of council and defendant appearing in person in Laytaw County District Courtroom number three court noted defendant is in Laytaw County custody court identified council for both the state and the defendant 910 am court introduced itself to all parties both present in the courtroom and on Zoom 910 court informed defendant of his rights as defendant in a felony criminal case and of procedures to be followed 912 in response to inquiry from the court defendant stated he understood his rights and did not need them explained in any further detail 912 in response to inquiry of the court defendant stated he had received a copy of the indictment further stating his name date of birth and last four digits of his social security were correct as listed 913 court informed the defendant of the felony charge against him

in count 1 burglary in violation of Idaho code 18-1401 18-1403 end of the maximum penalty the offense carries upon conviction of up to 10 years in the state penitentiary with a mandatory minimum of one year imprisonment of $50,000 fine or both and the defendant may be required to pay restitution for any economic loss 913 court informed the defendant of the felony charge against him in counts 2 3 4 and 5 murder in the first degree in violation of Idaho code 18-4001 18-4002 18-4003 and 18-4004 end the maximum penalty each offense carries upon conviction of up to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary or the death penalty a $50,000 fine he may be required to pay his

restitution for any economic loss and he may be required to pay a $5,000 civil penalty to the victim's families 916 court noted the indictment was signed on May 16, 2023 by the presiding ranger 918 in response to inquiry from the court defendant stated he understood all five charges potential penalties for each charge and his rights 919 in response to inquiry from the court miscalers stated defendant will stand silent at the time court entered not guilty please for each charge 919 court informed the all parties that the state has 60 days to file notice of whether they intend to pursue the death penalty and defendant has a constitutional right to a speedy trial 919 Miss Taylor moved to set this case for jury trial towards the end of the speedy trial deadline Miss Taylor noted speedy trial runs on approximately November 22, 2023 and Miss Taylor suggested

court said in October trial date further stating it will take at least four weeks possibly six weeks to try the case 921 Mr. Thompson agreed to an October trial date 922 there being no objection court said a jury trial to commence on October 2, 2023 for six weeks 922 in response to inquiry from court neither counsel had any further matters to address at this time 923 court clarified the preliminary hearing set for June 26, 2023 was vacated following the indictment court thank the counsel media and the public defendant to be remanded to the custody of the Laytaw County Sheriff pending further court appearance hearing end time 923 all right folks that's going to do it for this one all of the information that goes with the episode can be found in the description box it's fall in jeep country and during the driving to fall sales event get a great deal on four

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