Kohberger’s attorney filed motion Wednesday requesting additional deadlines

MOSCOS, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — The attorney representing the suspected killer in the slaying of four University of Idaho students filed a motion on Wednesday requesting additional deadlines.

Bryan Kohberger’s defense attorney Anne Taylor is requesting additional deadlines relating to her client’s alibi disclosure, as well as a Change of Motion briefing, witness lists and evidence for both sides for the Change of Venue motion; along with state’s discover and defense discovery.

In the motion filed with the court on Wednesday, Tayor outlines her requested dates for later this year and into 2025.

She is requesting that the state put forth their expert disclosures by October of this year, while allowing her defense team until January of 2025. The defense is also requesting further disclosures and rebuttals a year from now in March of 2025.

Taylor also lists defense motions regarding the death penalty be extended out to November of 2024 and a variety of motions and motions in Laimine through the end of May 2025.

In the document, Taylor requests the additional time to establish deadlines and to allow for his defense team to be prepared.

No word yet on when Judge John C. Judge will respond.

The next hearing scheduled is for the Motion for a Change of Venue on May 14, 2024, at the Latah County Courthouse.

Kohberger, a 29-year-old former Washington State University graduate student, is facing four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin who were found dead at their off-campus home in Moscow on November 13, 2022.

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