MOSCOW, Idaho — (MOSCOW, Idaho) -- Lawyers for Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of killing four Idaho college students last year, are leaving the door open regarding whether they will offer an alibi defense at his upcoming capital murder trial, but are not committing to presenting one.
In a new court filing, the one-time Ph.D. student's attorney suggests Kohberger, 28, may not have been at the home where Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle, both 20, and 21-year-olds Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves were stabbed to death in the early-morning hours of November 13. The filing offered no additional details as to what Kohberger’s alternative whereabouts might have been.
The filing came just before the Monday, July 24 deadline for Kohberger to decide whether to offer an alibi defense, and to inform the prosecution. That deadline was already an extension, following a June request from Kohberger's team for more time to decide whether to offer an alibi defense. "Idaho law requires that the defense notify the prosecution of the possibility of an alibi defense. Here they are preserving that right, without committing," said Matt Murphy, former Orange County prosecutor and ABC News legal contributor."And as they note, the investigation is ongoing."
Kohberger was indicted in May and charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary. He declined to offer a plea at his arraignment, so the judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. After a six-week hunt, police zeroed in on Kohberger as a suspect, saying they tracked his white Hyundai Elantra and cellphone signal data, and recovered what authorities said was his DNA on a knife sheath found next to one of the victims' bodies.
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