Bryan Kohberger has trial delayed in slayings of Idaho college students - and proceedings set to last months

Quadruple homicide fishy Bryan Kohberger's proceedings successful the deaths of 4 University of Idaho students has been delayed.

The 29-year-old erstwhile criminology lecturer is present owed to look execution charges for the November 2023 slayings of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves successful a Boise courtroom starting connected July 30, 2025 - astir 2 months from erstwhile the proceedings was primitively scheduled to begin, according to the Tri-City Herald. 

Jury enactment volition statesman connected July 30, and the transgression proceedings volition statesman connected August 11. Proceedings are past expected to past up to November 7.

The revised proceedings day appears to correspond a compromise betwixt the 2 options Ada County Judge Stephen Hippler presented astatine a proceeding past period - May 2025, which prosecutors favored, and September 2025, which was the defense's preference, the Idaho Statesman reports.

The justice had to alteration the day for the high-profile proceedings aft the authorities Supreme Court agreed to move it 300 miles from the tiny municipality of Moscow, Idaho, wherever the ruthless sidesplitting occurred, to the authorities superior of Boise.

Kohberger's defence attorneys had argued that extended media sum and beardown emotions successful the assemblage municipality would marque it hard to find an impartial jury, arsenic prosecutors question the decease penalty.

Prosecutors, though, argued they could find impartial jurors successful Moscow by bringing successful a ample excavation to take from. They besides said the determination inconveniences the household members of victims, attorneys, and witnesses.

They person claimed that Kohberger's DNA was recovered connected a Ka-Bar weapon sheath recovered astatine the victim's off-campus home, though nary execution limb has ever been found.   

Officials besides said that compartment telephone information and surveillance enactment Kohberger's car astatine the transgression country - though the defence has disputed those claims.

Instead, the defence claimed Kohberger was miles distant from the off-campus location wherever the students were murdered, and successful an official official alibi successful May 2024, they claiming that Kohberger was 'driving alone' connected the nighttime of the murders 'to look astatine the satellite and stars.'

Kohberger - who has maintained his innocence since his apprehension successful December 2022 - made his archetypal tribunal quality successful Boise 2 weeks ago.

At the hearing, Hippler said helium was 'happy to beryllium here,' but added: 'I expect for you astatine each times to stay civilian to each other, that you not prosecute successful idiosyncratic attacks, advertisement hominem attacks, that you not prosecute successful theatrics, not misstate facts oregon the instrumentality to the court.' 

The stakes successful the lawsuit are 'as precocious arsenic they tin be,' Hippler added. 

Kohberger is present owed backmost successful tribunal connected November 7.