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Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty in stabbing deaths of Idaho students
Bryan Kohberger will plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho college students as part of a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty, according to a lawyer for the family of one of the victims, a dramatic development in the high-profile case that was scheduled to go to trial within weeks. Kohberger, at a Wednesday hearing, is expected to plead guilty to four counts of first-degree murder in the 2022 slayings of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen at their off-campus home. The fatal stabbings drew police into a manhunt and upended the lives of people in Moscow, Idaho, as the case became a true-crime sensation. Shanon Gray, a lawyer representing the Goncalves family, said Monday that his clients were scrambling to arrange travel to Boise for Wednesday's hearing. The Goncalves family wrote in a Facebook post that they were 'beyond furious at the State of Idaho.' 'They have failed us,' the family wrote. 'Please give us some time. This was very unexpected.' Neither prosecutors nor attorneys for Kohberger responded to requests for comment Monday. Kohberger, 30, made the unusual decision at his 2023 arraignment to 'stand silent,' where a defendant declines to enter a plea, forcing the judge to enter a not-guilty plea on their behalf. The change in plea comes after several legal setbacks for Kohberger's defense over the past two years of pre-trial rulings. Most notably, his team fought to have the death penalty struck from his case because of his diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. But they could not persuade the judge that his disorder was equivalent to an intellectual disability, which would disqualify someone for capital punishment under the Eighth Amendment. The defense had also argued that a change of venue last year that shifted the case to Ada County from the much smaller Latah County had set back their preparation for a trial that was expected to last three months. Now, Kohberger appears poised to skip past a trial and move to the sentencing phase, where he is likely to face life in prison. Without the possibility of the death penalty, Kohberger will not be eligible for the rounds of automatic appeals that are required in capital cases. As the overall rate of executions slows, thousands of death row prisoners remain in limbo, with most dying in prison before they face an execution date. The Goncalves family had been vocal in calling for Kohberger to face the death penalty if convicted. Gray said the family wanted a chance to ask prosecutors to add certain conditions to Kohberger's plea deal — that he wouldn't write a book in prison about the experience, for instance. A trial would have also brought transparency — and possibly the answers the families have yearned for since their loved ones' deaths, Gray said. 'They would get to walk through the case, learn if anyone was targeted, if this was random, learn the reason why,' Gray said. Kohberger, then a criminal justice grad student at Washington State University in Pullman, was arrested at his family's home in Pennsylvania about six weeks after the killings. He faced charges after investigators linked him to the crime via DNA on a button snap of a knife sheath left at the scene, according to court records. Authorities also drew on cellphone data they alleged showed that Kohberger had been near the victims' house at least 12 times in the months before the killings, according to the 2022 criminal affidavit. In court documents, Kohberger said he was out driving at the time of the 4 a.m. slayings.
Yahoo
13 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Deadly crash at high-risk South Nashville intersection renews focus on traffic safety
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A deadly crash at a busy South Nashville intersection has put a spotlight on a known trouble spot. The Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure has already flagged the intersection merging Thompson, East Thompson Lane and Briley Parkway as part of the city's high-injury network. It's known to many in surrounding neighborhoods for speed and dangerous drivers. RELATED | MNPD: Man dead after being thrown from truck in Thompson Lane/Briley Parkway crash 'I've been driving the neighborhood for over a decade now, and that intersection is super scary,' Glancliff resident Rebecca Rabon told News 2, adding that she drives carefully through the area. Over the last decade, NDOT records showed that there have been 528 crashes at this intersection. Of those crashes, 393 resulted in property damage while four caused serious injuries. Prior to this weekend, just one crash there had been deadly. However, that changed on Sunday. The Metro Nashville Police Department said a 47-year-old Watertown man driving a pickup truck ran a red light, crashing into a car entering on a green light. The MNPD said he wasn't wearing a seat belt and died after he was thrown from his truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene. It's the type of tragedy Rabon has worried about for years. 'I immediately thought, 'Somebody probably ran the light,' because that is just what happens,' Rabon said. The Metro Councilmember for the area, Ginny Welsch, told News 2 that drivers are not the only ones at risk. 'So many of the people that we see getting injured at a lot of these intersections across Nashville are people who are working on the corners or panhandling,' Welsch said. Though there is a pilot program underway on East Thompson Lane to slow traffic, Rabon said that enforcement needs to go further. 'If we had people getting pulled for speeding, people getting pulled for running red lights, real consequences for people driving without insurance — things like that, I think, are necessary,' Rabon said. Welsch told News 2 that this spot is included in the city's Vision Zero plan, and potential long-term changes are on the horizon. Deadly crashes down in Tennessee ahead of holiday weekend 'For example, the smart lights — we will be able to watch, in real time, many of these intersections to see where problems are happening, where backups are happening, and situations are happening that we know might lead to people making more risky behaviors so we can change the length of lights.' However, she added that no amount of technology can replace wise choices behind the wheel. 'Your life is not worth that risk of that extra minute and a half to make it through that light,' Welsch concluded. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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No verdict on first day of jury deliberations at Sean ‘Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Jury deliberations got underway on Monday in Sean 'Diddy' Combs' federal sex trafficking trial and hit a snag almost as soon as they started. But, by the end of the day, jurors indicated they were making progress weighing complex charges that could put the hip-hop mogul in prison for life. The first day of deliberations saw a flurry of notes from the jury and Combs and his supporters bowing their heads in prayer in the courtroom — but no verdict. The jury of eight men and four women are sifting through seven weeks of sometimes graphic and emotional testimony about the rap, fashion and reality TV impresario 's propensity for violence and his sexual predilections, including drug-fueled sex marathons dubbed ' freak-offs ' or 'hotel nights.' About an hour in, the foreperson reported that a juror might be having trouble following the 61 pages worth of instructions the judge had just read to them. 'We are concerned (the juror) cannot follow your honor's instructions,' the foreperson said in a note to Judge Arun Subramanian just after 12:30 p.m. After the judge originally proposed asking the jury foreperson the nature of concerns about the fellow juror, defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo suggested caution and that it was better to say less than more. 'We can always ratchet it up. We can't ratchet it down,' Agnifilo said. Subramanian sent his response to the jury around 2 p.m., reminding the panel to deliberate and to follow his instructions on the law. The jury sent another note about three hours later asking for clarification on the part of the instructions addressing drug distribution — an allegation included in Combs' racketeering conspiracy charge. As deliberations were happening, Combs prayed with his family and friends in the courtroom. Wearing his customary sweater and khakis, he stood facing his contingent in the audience and bowed his head with them. As they finished, they applauded, along with Combs. Combs also showed off two books he's reading: 'The Power of Positive Thinking,' by Norman Vincent Peale and 'The Happiness Advantage,' by Shawn Achor. As he sent the jury to deliberate, Subramanian told the five alternate jurors to remain on standby at home in case they're needed at a later point. Jurors were provided with a laptop loaded with all of the exhibits shown in court, including text messages, photographs and videos of the sexual encounters at the heart of the case. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking — relating to two of his ex-girlfriends — and two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution for allegedly arranging to fly his girlfriends and sex workers across state lines. In closing arguments last week, federal prosecutors and Combs' defense team took their last shots at convincing jurors to convict or acquit the Grammy Award-winning founder of Bad Boy Records. 'The defendant used power, violence and fear to get what he wanted,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik said. 'He thought that his fame, wealth and power put him above the law.' She said that he used his 'close inner circle and a small army of personal staff, who made it their mission to meet the defendant's every desire, promote his power and protect his reputation at all costs.' Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo countered, 'This isn't about crime. It's about money." He noted that one of Combs' accusers in the criminal case also sued him in civil court. 'He is not a racketeer. He is not a conspirator to commit racketeering. He is none of these things. He is innocent. He sits there innocent. Return him to his family, who have been waiting for him,' the lawyer told jurors. In all, 34 witnesses testified, headlined by Combs' former girlfriends Cassie — the R&B singer born Casandra Ventura — and ' Jane,' who testified under a pseudonym. Both women said he often was violent toward them. Cassie said he forced her into hundreds of sexual encounters with paid male sex workers while Jane recounted numerous 'hotel nights.' Jurors also saw now-infamous security camera video of Combs beating, kicking and dragging Cassie at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 and clips from videos of sexual encounters. Combs chose not to testify, and his lawyers didn't call any witnesses in their defense case. His attorneys elected instead to challenge the accusers' credibility during lengthy cross-examination questioning. The defense has acknowledged that Combs veered into violence, but his lawyers maintain that the sex acts were consensual. They contend that prosecutors are intruding in Combs' personal life and that he's done nothing to warrant the charges against him.
