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Murder In Moscow: Bryan Kohberger Gets New October Court Date in Bid to Undo Guilty Plea (9/8/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome back to the program. In
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  Speaker 1: this episode, we're going to spin back up to Moscow
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to check in on the newest development
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to Brian Kohlberger and his bid to
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  Speaker 1: overturn his plea deal. And previously, he had a court
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  Speaker 1: date scheduled for next year. Well now, he has a
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  Speaker 1: court date scheduled for October 15th. And if you recall,
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to get Judge Hippler thrown off the case.
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  Speaker 1: because he says that Judge Hippler is not an impartial person,
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  Speaker 1: and that the commentary that Judge Hippler made should be
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  Speaker 1: more than enough to get him removed. So today we
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  Speaker 1: have an article from the New York Post, and the headline.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Kohlberger gets new court date in pushed overturn plea
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  Speaker 1: deal in University of Idaho murders. This article was authored
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  Speaker 1: by Zoe Hussain. Convicted killer Brian Kohlberger and his attorneys
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  Speaker 1: have been granted a new court date amid his bid
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  Speaker 1: to to overturn his plea deal and stand trial in
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  Speaker 1: the University of Idaho slayings. Well, Brian Kohlberger should just
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  Speaker 1: say that he's crazy. That's what I would do. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I was suffering from a psychiatric break, and I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea what I was doing. I mean, it worked
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  Speaker 1: up in Massachusetts, right? Kohlberger's defense team and prosecutors will
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  Speaker 1: return to the Ada County Courthouse on October 15th to
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  Speaker 1: discuss the former criminology student's push to disqualify Judge Stephen
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  Speaker 1: Hippler from presiding over his post-conviction case, according to court records.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to be successful here, but
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  Speaker 1: you know what? You never know. And like I've said
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  Speaker 1: from the very beginning, I'm willing to follow the evidence
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  Speaker 1: wherever it goes. If Brian Koberger has evidence that shows
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  Speaker 1: us he's innocent, I'd love to see it. But we're
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  Speaker 1: going on what? Five years now? And he hasn't produced
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  Speaker 1: a single thing that I would call evidence. Whereas on
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  Speaker 1: the other side, There's an abundance of evidence that we've
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  Speaker 1: been privy to, especially after the plea deal, that point
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  Speaker 1: directly to Brian Kohlberger. So if he has something that would,
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  Speaker 1: you know, change the scope of things, let's see it.
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  Speaker 1: Hipler sentenced Kohlberger 31 to four life sentences without parole
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  Speaker 1: for the November 2022 fatal stabbings of four University of
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  Speaker 1: Idaho students, Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogan, Zanna Kernodle, and Kaylee Gonsalves,
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  Speaker 1: after he admitted to the murders in a July 2025
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  Speaker 1: plea hearing. Imagine getting up there and admitting that you
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  Speaker 1: did this. And then a year later, you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? Maybe not. I'm not really digging this
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  Speaker 1: whole entire life sentence thing. So maybe, just maybe, I'll
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  Speaker 1: try to get this plea deal thrown out. And the
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  Speaker 1: fact that there is a pathway to do that is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: If you get up in open court and you admit
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  Speaker 1: that you killed four people, three people, whatever, I really
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  Speaker 1: don't ever want to hear from you again. Unless there
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  Speaker 1: is some kind of bombshell ass evidence you have. Short
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  Speaker 1: of that, take your sentence and enjoy it. Because you've
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  Speaker 1: earned it. If you kill four people, you're lucky that
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  Speaker 1: all you're getting is a life sentence. Because in my opinion, helicopters, volcanoes.
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  Speaker 1: The new October court hearing comes soon after Hitler scheduled
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  Speaker 1: a status conference and evidentiary hearing for Kohlberger in June
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  Speaker 1: of 2027. So that was the first hearing that we
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  Speaker 1: heard about. And now this one's on the docket too.
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  Speaker 1: And this one's next month. And I'm wondering if they're
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  Speaker 1: going to have the cameras in the courtroom for this.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not, but they should. In a handwritten affidavit filed
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  Speaker 1: by Kohlberger this summer, the admitted murderer claimed his former
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  Speaker 1: legal team misled him and his family about the damning
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  Speaker 1: evidence before he pleaded to the heinous quadruple homicide. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they totally misled him. There wasn't a bunch of evidence
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  Speaker 1: that pointed directly to Brian Kohlberger. This dumb fuck didn't
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  Speaker 1: leave the sheath there or nothing. Nah, that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: They had nothing to go on. And Brian Kohlberger just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, decided to plead guilty because his legal team
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  Speaker 1: didn't know what they were doing. Does that sound logical
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  Speaker 1: to anybody? Especially when you know who his legal team was?
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  Speaker 1: And the lengths they went to get him off? But
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Brian Kohlberger didn't get a fair deal?
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  Speaker 1: He didn't get a fair shake? Have you ever heard
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  Speaker 1: about Kalief Browder? You want to talk about people not
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  Speaker 1: getting a fair shake? Boy, it's Mr. Kalief Browder. Kohlberger
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  Speaker 1: alleged that coercion, disinformation, false promises, and the withholding of
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  Speaker 1: exculpatory discovery bullied him into entering a bogus plea deal
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  Speaker 1: on July 2, 2025, according to a legal petition obtained
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  Speaker 1: by the New York Times. And look, as somebody that
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  Speaker 1: followed this case from literally the day it happened, I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe that for a minute. Kohlberger and his team
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  Speaker 1: were given everything they asked for. Venue change, more money,
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  Speaker 1: more experts, you name it. And Brian Kohlberger had some
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  Speaker 1: of the best legal counsel in the whole state. But
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, that's not good enough? All of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, Brian Kohlberger was coerced? Brian Kohlberger didn't know
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  Speaker 1: what he was getting into? I have no idea how
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  Speaker 1: he thinks he's going to convince the court that that happened,
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  Speaker 1: unless he has the evidence to back it up. And
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  Speaker 1: as of now, well, we have not seen that evidence.
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  Speaker 1: The killer's defense team has been moving to disqualify Hippler,
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  Speaker 1: citing remarks he made during Kohlberger's sentencing that signal He
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  Speaker 1: may not have impartiality. And move the case from Ada
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  Speaker 1: County back to Latah County, KTVB reported. And remember, it
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  Speaker 1: was reversed last time. Oh, we can't get a fair
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  Speaker 1: shake in Latah County. We have to move it to
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  Speaker 1: Ada County. I mean, give me a break. And now it's, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: Ada County don't work. Let's go back to Latah County.
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  Speaker 1: All on the dime of the taxpayer. I'm sure that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what people in Idaho want to do. Spend more
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  Speaker 1: money on bitch-ass Brian Kohlberger. Kohlberger's counsel claims that moving
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  Speaker 1: the case to a different county could stave off the
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  Speaker 1: media frenzy surrounding the brutal stabbings, which has made it
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  Speaker 1: difficult to find an unbiased venue, the outlet said. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's biased against my client. Oh no, Brian Kohlberger, everybody
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  Speaker 1: heard the story. No shit, it's the year 2026. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: has the internet, everybody has a cell phone, everybody's on the,
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  Speaker 1: you know, doom scroll on a regular basis. You're not
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  Speaker 1: going to find people that don't know about the case.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why selecting a jury is so important. Because
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  Speaker 1: the days of finding jurors who have not been exposed
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  Speaker 1: to the information, those days are long over. And it
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  Speaker 1: really doesn't matter the case. Like, everybody's connected. And if
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  Speaker 1: there's any kind of case with any kind of publicity,
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  Speaker 1: you have to expect that people are going to be
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  Speaker 1: following along. And some of those people might be in
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  Speaker 1: your jury pool. Prosecutors already filed a motion to dismiss
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  Speaker 1: the case, stating that Koberger's own admissions in a written
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  Speaker 1: factual basis document may pose a hurdle, people reported. In
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  Speaker 1: the document, Koberger stated that he's willing to hereby admit
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  Speaker 1: responsibility for the killing of the four University of Idaho
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  Speaker 1: students in their off-campus Moscow home, the outlet said. He
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  Speaker 1: also admitted that the killing and murder of his victims
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  Speaker 1: was willful, unlawful, deliberate, with premeditation, and with malice aforethought.
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  Speaker 1: So in other words, I put thought into it. I
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  Speaker 1: premeditated it. I knew what I was doing. And then
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  Speaker 1: I murdered these four kids. That's what that means. And now,
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, miraculously, that's not what happened. Woke
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  Speaker 1: up one day and you decided, oh, I have a
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  Speaker 1: better idea. It wasn't me. It was Colonel Mustard with
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  Speaker 1: the candlestick. I mean, what are we doing here? Like
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  Speaker 1: he never put forward an alternate perpetrator. There was never
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  Speaker 1: any cogent argument that somebody else did this. And all
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  Speaker 1: roads pointed to Brian Kohlberger. So I don't understand what
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  Speaker 1: they think they're going to magically come up with this
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  Speaker 1: time around. Because remember, we have access to all the work.
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  Speaker 1: We've been looking at documents. We've been reading unsealed information
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  Speaker 1: from the case. And none of it looks good for
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  Speaker 1: Brian Kohlberger. And every single time that his defense... attempted
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  Speaker 1: to challenge the evidence that was provided against him, it
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  Speaker 1: literally ended up going nowhere. And I think that moving forward,
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  Speaker 1: with all of that in hindsight, the court's going to
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  Speaker 1: be very, very, very hesitant to give Brian Kohlberger what
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  Speaker 1: he wants. Now, that said, if new evidence is presented
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  Speaker 1: and he has something to show us, yo, I am
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  Speaker 1: willing to look at it. Because at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the day, it's not about Brian Kohlberger, is it? It's
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  Speaker 1: about justice for those four kids. And if Brian Kohlberger
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  Speaker 1: is not the guy who did it, then who did it?
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  Speaker 1: Who's responsible? Who should be in prison instead of you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at what Karen Reid did. And at
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  Speaker 1: the very least, she had a viable, even if you
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  Speaker 1: hardly believed it, alternate perpetrator theory. Meanwhile, Brian Kohlberger, his
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  Speaker 1: alibi was that he was out staring at stars. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I like the night sky. So I was out on
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  Speaker 1: a cloudy night looking at stars. Yeah, that's a solid-ass alibi.
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  Speaker 1: That's really selling me. If I'm on the jury, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: I got bad news for you. You're about to have
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  Speaker 1: a date with the firing squad. Koberger then pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 1: in court as part of a plea deal that spared
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  Speaker 1: him the death penalty, but stipulated that he agree never
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  Speaker 1: to appeal his case, only giving him the chance of
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  Speaker 1: a new trial through a petition for post-conviction relief. If
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  Speaker 1: granted a new trial and convicted, Kohlberger will likely face
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  Speaker 1: the death penalty, the outlet said. And look, if he
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  Speaker 1: makes that stupid mistake and really tries to push this
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  Speaker 1: point home, he should be facing the death penalty. And
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  Speaker 1: I think that if they prosecute the case and it
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  Speaker 1: gets to a jury, that's exactly what we're going to see.
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  Speaker 1: Because in my opinion, and look, again, just my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: everything that we've seen so far points directly to Brian Kohlberger.
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  Speaker 1: And when something looks like a duck, walks like a duck,
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  Speaker 1: and quacks like a duck, well, chances are it's not
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  Speaker 1: a fucking tiger, right? So unless Brian Kohlberger has something
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  Speaker 1: new to share, some sort of revelation that none of
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  Speaker 1: us are aware of, then I think that he's just
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  Speaker 1: spinning his wheels in neutral. But in a month from now,
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  Speaker 1: when we have this hearing, we should learn a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more. And like usual, once we have that information,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get it updated in the catalog. All the information
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  Speaker 1: that goes with this episode can be found in the
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  Speaker 1: description box.