Bryan Kohberger Trial_ DNA of 3 People Found Under Victim's Nails _ E! News

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00:00New findings in the Idaho College murder case have emerged.

00:03Attorneys for Brian Koberger, who has been accused of fatally stabbing University of Idaho students Madison Mogan,

00:10Kaylee Gonsalves, Zanna Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin at a rental home in 2022,

00:15say an investigator discovered DNA from three individuals under Mogan's fingernail.

00:20The defense says an emotion unsealed March 4th and obtained by E! News,

00:24the data consisted of three-person mixture,

00:27noting that comparison to Koberger's DNA was found inconclusive,

00:30meaning he could neither be confirmed or eliminated as one of the contributors.

00:34They say at least four other unnamed individuals were also tested during the investigation,

00:39with their results coming back as inconclusive as well.

00:42Koberger's lawyers allege the investigator used misleading language when focusing on

00:47Koberger's Inconclusive Lab Results, or LR, while testifying in front of a grand jury,

00:52potentially setting up the 29-year-old for an unfair trial.

00:56The defense says in the filing, which had the investigator's testimony redacted,

01:00all of these individuals sit in the same shoes as Mr. Koberger.

01:03Thus, Mr. Koberger's Inconclusive LR is similar to almost every other person for whom an LR was

01:09generated, and focusing on his Inconclusive LR would mislead the jury. Koberger's legal team

01:14is looking to have parts of the investigator's testimony excluded before his case heads to trial

01:19in August. A judge entered a not-guilty plea to his murder charges when he remained silent during

01:24his 2023 arraignment. Koberger could face the death penalty if found guilty.

01:29In February, a judge denied the Washington State University alum's motion to suppress DNA

01:34evidence concerning a knife sheath that police say was found at the scene of the murders,

01:38as well as trash taken from outside the home of Koberger's parents. While the defense argued law

01:43enforcement violated Koberger's constitutional rights by not obtaining a warrant before

01:47conducting the trash pull, the judge disagreed and said the criminology graduate exposed his

01:52DNA to the public by leaving it on the sheath and that by throwing away an item of trash

01:57containing his DNA, defendant cannot object to testing of that DNA. The judge also ruled that

02:03Koberger's cell phone and email records, as well as surveillance footage and his Amazon

02:07purchase history, can't be used in his upcoming trial.

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