Kohberger Wants His Plea Back Over WHAT His Lawyers Said?!

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Oct 3, 2026 · 29m

Bryan Kohberger wants to withdraw the guilty plea that spared him a death-penalty trial, and his new challenge reaches back to what his own lawyers privately told the judge weeks before that plea. The now-unsealed filing says Anne Taylor’s team believed Kohberger was struggling to understand adverse rulings and rationally evaluate the case as a whole.

That is not the same as a finding that Kohberger was incompetent. His attorneys expressly denied incompetence while asking Judge Steven Hippler for additional time to investigate the problem and obtain expert assistance. Hippler denied the…