How Bryan Kohberger's Newest Defender Learned He Had the Case
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The episode discusses how Greg Rauch became Bryan Kohberger's attorney and the challenges he faces in the case.
Greg Rauch found out he was Bryan Kohberger's attorney at almost the same moment the rest of America did, and his first hours on the job tell you everything about how this appointment happened. Assigned August 3, 2026 by the court through Idaho's Alternate Counsel Division, Rauch fielded a call from a national reporter before he'd read a single page. He said so himself: the case file, the police reports, and a first conversation with his client were all still ahead of him. The client in question sits in J-Block at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna, roughly three hundred miles from Rauch's office, waiting on a handwritten petition that asks a judge to throw out the guilty plea in the University of Idaho student murders. Kohberger alleges coercion, broken promises, and hidden evidence, including untested hair from the scene — claims his own July 2025 courtroom statements flatly contradict, and claims no court has weighed yet. The defense he abandoned was led by Anne Taylor and reinforced by a Berkeley-trained DNA litigator, at a reported taxpayer cost above eight million dollars. The defense he gained is one man whose practice covers bankruptcy, divorce, custody, and…
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