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Idaho victim's family demands Kohberger confess in court after plea deal decision: 'Full accountability'
- Bryan Kohberger is scheduled to attend a change of plea hearing in Boise on Wednesday related to the 2022 murders of four students from the University of Idaho involving stabbings.
- The plea deal arose after prosecutors decided to remove the death penalty in exchange for Kohberger pleading guilty to four counts of murder and burglary, while families were only briefly consulted amid a rushed timeline.
- Kohberger was arrested weeks after the killings in Pennsylvania and linked to the crimes through DNA on a knife sheath, cell phone data, and surveillance footage, though no motive has been established.
- Victims’ family members, especially Kaylee Goncalves' family, expressed outrage over the plea deal and the State of Idaho, calling it an illusion in the justice system, while prosecutors and legal experts cited appealable issues and prosecutorial resource limits.
- If the plea deal is accepted, Kohberger would likely be sentenced to consecutive life terms by July, and the case's transfer to Boise aims to ensure a fair trial given pretrial publicity in the northern Idaho community.
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Steve Gonvalves, father of Idaho murder victim Kaylee Goncalves, spoke to the press outside of the Idaho courthouse after a plea deal was offered and accepted by Bryan Kohberger on Monday. Gonvalves, along with the other four families, was enraged that they were not consulted on the terms of the plea deal that would sentence Kohberger to a lifetime in prison. He claimed that the prosecuting attorney did not give "the common courtesy to negotiate…
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