Latah County District Judge John Judge has ordered both sides in the Bryan Kohberger case to avoid contacting prospective jurors – an unusual move, experts say.
The judge overseeing the murder case against University of Idaho stabbing suspect Bryan Kohberger has barred prosecutors and the defense from contacting potential jurors without express permission from the court. It comes as the 29-year-old criminologist's defense is hoping for a change of venue from Idhao's Latah County, a community of about 40,000, where Kohberger allegedly barged into an off-campus rental house and massacred four students at 4 a.m. on a Saturday in November 2022.
Prosecuting Attorney Bill Thompson requested the judge's order in a motion filed under seal. Kohberger's defense team, led by Kootenai County public defender Anne Taylor, objected in another filing under seal. 'Both parties are prohibited from contacting potential jurors about this case, including via third parties, until further order of this Court,' Judge John Judge wrote in a short order on March 22, but made public Monday evening.
can't help but think that something happened which prompted the judge's order and he is probably defining contact to include some type of behavior that he is concerned about,' he said. 'For instance, some type of juror research that might result in some type of social media contact.
fair and impartial jury cannot be found in Latah County owing to the extensive, inflammatory pretrial publicity, allegations made about Mr. Kohberger to the public by media that will be inadmissible at his trial, the small size of the community, the salacious nature of the alleged crimes, and the severity of the charges Mr. Kohberger faces,' Taylor wrote in late January. Kohberger, of Pennsylvania, was attending Washington State University in pursuit of a criminology Ph.D.
Thompson, the lead prosecutor, has countered that the case is already receiving global attention and media coverage and that a change of venue would not be necessary.
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