Mega Edition: Bryan Kohberger Looks To Exclude Testimony From Expert Rylene Nowlin (8/14/26)
Bryan Kohberger’s defense asked the court to exclude testimony from Rylene Nowlin, the laboratory manager at the Idaho State Police Forensic Services Laboratory, concerning how Kohberger’s DNA allegedly came to be on the knife sheath recovered from the King Road crime scene. The defense specifically challenged Nowlin’s proposed opinion that the DNA was more likely deposited through direct transfer rather than indirectly transferred from another person or object. Kohberger’s attorneys argued that determining precisely how or when DNA was transferred went beyond the proper expertise of a…
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