Kohberger's New Petition Zeroes In On WHO?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Aug 9, 2026 · 35m

He said it four times, under oath, in open court: he killed each of them deliberately. A judge asked Bryan Kohberger point blank whether he was pleading guilty because he was guilty. Yes. Whether anyone forced him. No. That's the record from the day he gave up his right to a trial in the University of Idaho student murders. Thirteen months later, he wants that trial back. His handwritten petition claims his lawyers failed him, that proof of his innocence was buried before he signed anything, and that he was scared into the deal with lies about what life in prison and death row in Idaho…