Kohberger Says His Lawyers Did WHAT?!
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Bryan Kohberger pleads guilty to murder but later claims his attorneys coerced him into confessing and withheld evidence.
Bryan Kohberger stood in an Ada County courtroom on July 2, 2025, and pleaded guilty to killing Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin. The judge confirmed the plea was voluntary. Kohberger gave up his right to ever appeal it. Thirteen months later, from a jail cell, he wrote a different story — a handwritten petition claiming his own defense attorneys, Anne Taylor, Elisa Massoth, and Bicka Barlow, coerced him into confessing, promised prison conditions that never materialized, and withheld evidence he calls exculpatory, including hair found in Ethan Chapin's hand that physical analysis excluded as Kohberger's but that no one ever sent for DNA testing. No supporting evidence came with the filing. The Goncalves family's response: he's a narcissist. Prosecutors wanted it dismissed without a hearing. Judge Steven Hippler — the same judge who took Kohberger's plea in the first place — said no. A status conference is set for June 3, 2027, with a full evidentiary hearing on June 17. And in a twist that undercuts Kohberger's entire petition, his own defense-hired digital forensics expert, Sy Ray, told reporters investigators missed even more incriminating…
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