BOISE, Idaho — Attorneys for Moscow homicide defendant Bryan Kohberger seek to pause his court proceedings while they await delivery of contested records from last month’s grand jury indictment that pushed the closely watched case to a trial scheduled for October.
Kohberger’s defense team may consider challenging the indictment of their client by the confidential panel, which the prosecution sat exclusively for this case. The defense requested the details of those grand jury hearings, including all transcripts and recordings, presented evidence and the jurors’ names, to decide how to move forward, according to court records.
Three days after the announcement of the indictment, the defense asked for a detailed list of 34 pieces of information included in grand jury records. And for several weeks, the prosecution and defense in the case have been at odds over some of the records, and whether state law or court precedent allows their release.
