COURTROOM INSIDER | Lori Daybell Wants New Trial, Prosecutor Rachel Smith Reacts
- Bryan Kohberger, 30, pleaded guilty this week to the murders of four University of Idaho students and will be transferred to Idaho Maximum Security Institution for life imprisonment.
- Kohberger avoided the death penalty by accepting a plea deal, resulting in a life sentence without parole at Idaho Maximum Security Institution, a prison for the most violent offenders.
- Within IMSI, inmates face feces-covered cages, a 'biohazard' ventilation system, and extended solitary confinement amid reports of violence and neglect.
- Following the July 23 sentencing, Kohberger will be transferred to IMSI, where victims’ families will give impact statements amid ongoing prison reform debates.
- More broadly, IMSI, with over 500 dangerous inmates, is ranked among the '15 Worst Prisons in America,' despite failed reform efforts since 2016.
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Why did Bryan Kohberger do it? Guilty plea doesn’t end quest for more details in Idaho college student slayings
By ED WHITE With a series of “yes” replies to a judge, a man accused of killing four Idaho college students pleaded guilty in exchange for life in prison and no death penalty. But left untold so far: What motivated Bryan Kohberger to commit the middle-of-the-night knife attacks and why those victims? More details could emerge when Kohberger returns to court for his sentence on July 23. Some answers could also be in the hundreds of documents file…
Bryan Kohberger Did Not Plan to Murder All 4 Victims, Suggests Prosecutor as He Fights Back Tears in Court
Bryan Kohberger may have only murdered Xana Kernodle and her boyfriend Ethan Chapin because he encountered Kerndole while trying to exit the Moscow residence, said Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson
COURTROOM INSIDER | Lori Daybell wants new trial, Prosecutor Rachel Smith reacts
Tonight on “Courtroom Insider,” Lori Vallow Daybell wants a new trial and special prosecutor Rachel Smith joins Nate Eaton to react to Lori’s interview and the latest in the Bryan Kohberger case. Watch in the video player above.The post COURTROOM INSIDER | Lori Daybell wants new trial, Prosecutor Rachel Smith reacts appeared first on East Idaho News.
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