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(NewsNation) — The execution proceedings of Bryan Kohberger — the antheral accused of sidesplitting 4 University of Idaho students successful November 2022 arsenic they slept — volition statesman successful August arsenic antecedently scheduled, a justice ruled Thursday.
Defense attorneys had requested much clip to hole for the case, which has received a ample magnitude of pretrial publicity, including leaks of accusation to media outlets that they accidental could beryllium harmful to their client.
Kohberger, a erstwhile postgraduate pupil successful transgression justice, is facing execution charges successful the deaths of Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves and Ethan Chapin. The four University of Idaho students were stabbed to decease Nov. 13, 2022, successful an off-campus house, shocking the tiny municipality of Moscow, Idaho, and mounting disconnected a hunt for a suspect.
Kohberger, a pupil astatine adjacent Washington State University, was arrested a period later, aft investigators said they utilized familial genealogy to place him. Prosecutors person since said they person a upland of grounds against him, including an online past that includes purchasing the benignant of weapon believed to person been utilized successful the stabbings.
In his written determination Thursday, Judge Steven Hippler questioned whether pretrial publicity would ever fade, fixed the public's involvement successful the case.
"The murders occurred implicit 2 and one-half years ago. The circumstances of the murders were provocative — 4 assemblage students successful a tiny Idaho assemblage municipality were brutally stabbed to decease by an chartless perpetrator. It was an contiguous media sensation and garnered wide attraction that not lone continues to persist, but continues to grow," the justice wrote.
With the judge's order, assemblage enactment is acceptable to statesman connected Aug. 4, with opening statements expected to instrumentality spot connected Aug. 18, according to tribunal records.
In a abstracted ruling, Hippler denied a defence petition to contiguous "alternate perpetrators" to jurors.
