The mother of one of four murdered University of Idaho students blasted a public defender for abandoning her as a client and instead taking on the case of her daughter’s accused killer.
Cara Northington’s 20-year-old daughter Xana Kernodle was found fatally stabbed on Nov. 13 inside a home in Moscow, near the University of Idaho campus. Her boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, and two of her housemates, Madison Mogen, 21, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21, also were killed in the bloody attack.
Around the same time, court-appointed defense attorney Anne Taylor was counseling Northington on unrelated drug charges. But she suddenly dropped Northington as a client on Jan. 5 — the same day she first appeared in court alongside Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old Ph.D. candidate accused of murdering all four students.
