Mega Edition: Judge Judge Warns Kohberger And The State About Contacting Potential Jurors (10/14/26)

Beyond The Horizon · Oct 14, 2026 · 47m · transcript

In March 2024, Judge John Judge temporarily barred both Bryan Kohberger’s defense team and prosecutors from contacting prospective jurors in Latah County, either directly or through third parties, after a dispute erupted over a telephone survey commissioned by the defense. Kohberger’s attorneys had hired social psychologist Bryan Edelman to poll roughly 400 local residents as part of their effort to show that pretrial publicity had contaminated the jury pool and that the case should be moved out of Latah County. Prosecutors objected, arguing that some of the survey questions exposed potential…