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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. A
- 0:04Speaker 1: couple of days ago, we found out that Brian Colberger
- 0:07Speaker 1: was appointed a new lawyer by the state of Idaho. Well,
- 0:10Speaker 1: now we're finding out a little bit more about who
- 0:13Speaker 1: that lawyer is, at the very least a name. And
- 0:16Speaker 1: can you imagine being this poor sob You're just hanging
- 0:19Speaker 1: out doing your job. You're a public defender or whatever,
- 0:23Speaker 1: or you take clients as part of your pro bono
- 0:26Speaker 1: work and this comes across your desk, that would be
- 0:30Speaker 1: my Look, I'm the kind of person that would luck
- 0:33Speaker 1: out and end up having to defend somebody like Brian Colberger. Now, look,
- 0:37Speaker 1: he deserves to have a lawyer, right, he deserves to
- 0:41Speaker 1: have some legal representation. I get it. But man, that
- 0:45Speaker 1: has to be a tough job, especially considering that Brian
- 0:48Speaker 1: Colberger's own experts have turned on him at least I ray,
- 0:52Speaker 1: And I mean, as a defense attorney, you start reading
- 0:55Speaker 1: stuff like that, seeing stuff like that can't exactly inspire
- 0:58Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in your new client. So today
- 1:02Speaker 1: we have an article from Fox News and the headline
- 1:05Speaker 1: Brian Cohberger gets new attorney appointed after he asks court
- 1:09Speaker 1: for post conviction relief in Idaho murders. You know, I'm
- 1:12Speaker 1: glad I'm not paying taxes up in Idaho. As much
- 1:15Speaker 1: as I understand why he has to get a lawyer
- 1:19Speaker 1: appointed by the taxpayer, doesn't mean i'd like it, doesn't
- 1:22Speaker 1: mean i'd want to pay for it. Look, I have
- 1:25Speaker 1: two rules. Leave me alone and I don't want to
- 1:27Speaker 1: pay for it. And when it comes to Coburger and
- 1:30Speaker 1: this new appeal, he's ticking both those boxes, right, especially
- 1:35Speaker 1: if you're a taxpayer in Idaho. Now the rest of
- 1:38Speaker 1: us can take a look at it and say, you
- 1:39Speaker 1: know what, that's shitty, But if you're somebody that's living
- 1:43Speaker 1: there and now you're paying for a lawyer again, for
- 1:45Speaker 1: Brian Colberger, I get it. I understand why people would
- 1:48Speaker 1: be upset about that. But that said, he deserves legal representation.
- 1:54Speaker 1: That's the way the systems set up. And in my opinion,
- 1:56Speaker 1: I don't see this dragging on. I see the court
- 1:59Speaker 1: take look at what Brian Colberger has to say and
- 2:02Speaker 1: telling him to kick rocks. So I don't see this
- 2:05Speaker 1: being something that's going to take a long period of
- 2:08Speaker 1: time and cost a whole bunch of extra money. This
- 2:13Speaker 1: article was authored by Michael Ruiz. Brian Colberger has been
- 2:17Speaker 1: appointed a new attorney to represent him in his petition
- 2:20Speaker 1: for post conviction relief, an attempt to withdraw his guilty
- 2:24Speaker 1: plea that he filed on his own roughly a year
- 2:27Speaker 1: after admitting to the murders of four University of Idaho
- 2:30Speaker 1: students who were stabbed to death in November of twenty
- 2:33Speaker 1: twenty two. Colberger, thirty, is now being represented by attorney
- 2:37Speaker 1: Greg Rousch of Moscow, Idaho. Rauch told Fox News Digital
- 2:43Speaker 1: he hasn't read the petition, the case file, or spoken
- 2:46Speaker 1: of Coburger yet. He was just appointed Monday morning and
- 2:50Speaker 1: said he expects to speak with Cohburger over the phone
- 2:53Speaker 1: in the near future and then visit him in prison
- 2:56Speaker 1: to talk face to face. I can't even imagine. Again, Look,
- 3:00Speaker 1: I get it, these guys are lawyers, they're professionals, and
- 3:03Speaker 1: most of them have dealt with really scummy people. But
- 3:06Speaker 1: Brian Colberger is a different kind of scumbag. In my opinion,
- 3:11Speaker 1: he's a serial killer, or at least has all the
- 3:13Speaker 1: makings of it, and if he was never caught for
- 3:16Speaker 1: these crimes, he definitely would have killed again. I one
- 3:20Speaker 1: hundred percent believe that, and considering the evidence that's been
- 3:24Speaker 1: collected against him, the evidence that we were privy to,
- 3:28Speaker 1: Brian Colberger is going to have a very hard time
- 3:30Speaker 1: changing that narrative. Now there's going to be people out
- 3:33Speaker 1: there that are willing to bite right because people want
- 3:35Speaker 1: to look at this as some form of entertainment. Oh,
- 3:39Speaker 1: Coburger's innocent. He's trying. He's getting realleroaded by the government. Oh,
- 3:43Speaker 1: the FBI showed up. It was chupacabras, it was Bigfoot. No,
- 3:47Speaker 1: it wasn't. Sometimes it just is what it is, and
- 3:51Speaker 1: in my opinion, this is one of those times. Today
- 3:54Speaker 1: my goal is to set up phone contact with him,
- 3:56Speaker 1: Rouch said, I got to read the case file, I
- 3:59Speaker 1: got to check out the police reports. I got to
- 4:01Speaker 1: talk to him. Coburger is being held in the J
- 4:03Speaker 1: Block unit of the Idaho Maximum Security Institution in Kuna,
- 4:07Speaker 1: about three hundred miles south of where the crimes took
- 4:09Speaker 1: place in Moscow, near the University of Idaho campus. And
- 4:14Speaker 1: if Coburger succeeds here, how many other criminals are going
- 4:17Speaker 1: to follow that blueprint? Oh well, Coburger did it, why
- 4:20Speaker 1: can't I? And as we all know, unless there's an
- 4:23Speaker 1: egregious violation by the court. Very rarely are these kinds
- 4:27Speaker 1: of convictions overturned. I mean, look at Glenn Maxwell. She
- 4:31Speaker 1: went crazy over Scotty David and how did that turn
- 4:35Speaker 1: out for her? And not just locally, but all the
- 4:38Speaker 1: way up the ladder, all the way to the Supreme Court.
- 4:41Speaker 1: So if Brian Colberger thinks he's going to have an
- 4:43Speaker 1: easy ride here, or that he's going to be able to,
- 4:46Speaker 1: you know, make some moves, I think he's going to
- 4:48Speaker 1: be disappointed. And I think he knows that the motivation here,
- 4:53Speaker 1: in my opinion, is to be cruel to the families,
- 4:57Speaker 1: and I think that's exactly what Brian Colberger is doing.
- 5:01Speaker 1: Coburger pleaded guilty in July of twenty twenty five to
- 5:04Speaker 1: four counts of first degree murder as well as a
- 5:06Speaker 1: charge of burglary. Judge Stephen Hitler sentenced him the four
- 5:10Speaker 1: consecutive terms of life without the possibility of parole, plus
- 5:15Speaker 1: another ten years. Eh, you know, ten more years for
- 5:18Speaker 1: good measure. There's not enough years in the history of
- 5:23Speaker 1: years for this dude to be punished correctly. Helicopters, volcanoes,
- 5:29Speaker 1: that's the proper punishment. For people that are deranged. You
- 5:33Speaker 1: know that you have cars that come out of the
- 5:34Speaker 1: factory that are lemons. Sometimes you have people that are lemons.
- 5:38Speaker 1: They're born fucked up, and in my opinion, Brian Colberger
- 5:41Speaker 1: is one of those people. The plea deal required Colberger
- 5:45Speaker 1: to waive his right to appeal. However, that doesn't block
- 5:48Speaker 1: him from seeking post conviction relief, which could reopen the
- 5:51Speaker 1: case if successful. Yo, if he's successful, I'd be shocked
- 5:56Speaker 1: if we didn't see the families engage in some kind
- 5:58Speaker 1: of law abiding citizens type shit. And I'm only half
- 6:01Speaker 1: kidding when I say that. I mean, can you imagine
- 6:04Speaker 1: being the family member of one of these kids who
- 6:06Speaker 1: was murdered and this scumbag gets up there with that
- 6:09Speaker 1: stupid grin, that dumb face of his, and says he
- 6:12Speaker 1: wants to take the plea back. It's unconscionable. It really is.
- 6:17Speaker 1: Then again, you look at the person that's doing it
- 6:19Speaker 1: and you understand what's going on, because Brian Colberger certainly
- 6:23Speaker 1: is a sick, demented son of a bitch. If he
- 6:26Speaker 1: succeeds and withdrawing his guilty plea, the case could go
- 6:29Speaker 1: to trial, where he would face the potential death penalty.
- 6:32Speaker 1: So he killed four people, right, they should give him
- 6:35Speaker 1: the death penalty, but bring them right to the brink
- 6:38Speaker 1: of death three times, and then bring him back and
- 6:41Speaker 1: then on the fourth time finally do away with them.
- 6:44Speaker 1: I mean, he killed four people, right. Coburger, in a
- 6:47Speaker 1: handwritten petition on July twenty seventh, twenty twenty six, claimed
- 6:51Speaker 1: that he was convinced to falsely confess by his high
- 6:54Speaker 1: profile defense team of Van Taylor, Alyssa Massof and Bico Barlow.
- 6:59Speaker 1: He alleged they didn't tell about exculpatory discovery hair found
- 7:02Speaker 1: at the scene that was not tested for DNA. It
- 7:05Speaker 1: was excluded as Coburger's by a physical analysis. Ridiculous. You
- 7:11Speaker 1: know how many people were in that house all the time.
- 7:15Speaker 1: He wants you to look at that and say, oh, no,
- 7:17Speaker 1: it's not Coburger. What about the other evidence? What about
- 7:20Speaker 1: all the digital evidence, What about the DNA? What about
- 7:24Speaker 1: everything that led up to it? All of it has
- 7:27Speaker 1: to be looked at in total, right, It's not just
- 7:30Speaker 1: one piece of evidence. And I think that's what a
- 7:33Speaker 1: lot of people failed to realize in these kinds of cases.
- 7:36Speaker 1: They get fixated on one piece of evidence. My friends,
- 7:40Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's going to take a lot more
- 7:42Speaker 1: to convict or get somebody off then one piece of evidence, unless,
- 7:46Speaker 1: of course, it's consequential as fuck, and that's certainly not
- 7:49Speaker 1: the case here Ida Who. Attorney General Raoul Labrador told
- 7:54Speaker 1: Fox News Digital shortly after Coburger's petition was filed that
- 7:58Speaker 1: his office is ready to do whatever is necessary to
- 8:01Speaker 1: ensure justice is fully carried out. Well, I would hope so,
- 8:05Speaker 1: considering you have a four time murderer sitting in your
- 8:08Speaker 1: prison who's asking to get released now or get a
- 8:11Speaker 1: new trial, I would hope that the Attorney General's office
- 8:14Speaker 1: is ready to go. Police found Colburger's DNA on a
- 8:18Speaker 1: knife sheath and a bed with two of the four victims,
- 8:21Speaker 1: Mogan and Gounsolves. They also at tracked his vehicle coming
- 8:25Speaker 1: and going, and forensic investigators were prepared to testify about
- 8:28Speaker 1: how although he shut his phone off during the murders,
- 8:32Speaker 1: the evidence suggested he drove to and from the crime
- 8:35Speaker 1: scene anyway. And it's all damning when you look at
- 8:38Speaker 1: all that evidence, it goes beyond a reasonable doubt. And
- 8:43Speaker 1: I know that if I was a juror and I
- 8:45Speaker 1: saw the evidence that they provided, Brian Colberger was definitely
- 8:49Speaker 1: getting the death penalty without a doubt. Now, look, things
- 8:52Speaker 1: can happen in trial, right, we can get a surprise
- 8:55Speaker 1: here or there. But I'm pretty confident that Colberger was
- 8:59Speaker 1: good and the truth is, so was he. The only
- 9:03Speaker 1: reason that he's doing this, in my opinion, is to
- 9:06Speaker 1: be cruel. That's it. It has nothing to do with
- 9:08Speaker 1: guilt or innocence or that he got screwed. He knows
- 9:11Speaker 1: he didn't get screwed, and he knows that they had
- 9:13Speaker 1: the evidence to convict him. That's why he accepted a plea.
- 9:17Speaker 1: He wasn't coerced. Separately, Siray, a former expert witness working
- 9:22Speaker 1: for Coburger's defense team, last week, alleged that there's additional
- 9:26Speaker 1: damaging evidence that investigators hadn't introduced before Brian Colberger's guilty plea.
- 9:32Speaker 1: They've got to release this report because the report that
- 9:35Speaker 1: changes everything has not been released. Ray told Fox News
- 9:38Speaker 1: Digital on Sunday. It hasn't been unsealed. That's interesting and
- 9:43Speaker 1: I'd love to see it, and I hope that it
- 9:46Speaker 1: gets unsealed soon so we can dive into it. Ray
- 9:49Speaker 1: said that the document known as the Location Database of
- 9:52Speaker 1: Record or LOCDBOR report contains pattern of life location data
- 9:58Speaker 1: that he alleges shows Coburger's stock them victims, that he
- 10:01Speaker 1: may have been inside the victims home before the murders,
- 10:04Speaker 1: and contains clues as to where he may have disposed
- 10:07Speaker 1: of evidence. Well, that would be huge, but like everything else,
- 10:12Speaker 1: take it with a grain of salt until we have
- 10:14Speaker 1: the evidence for ourselves and we can see it. That's
- 10:16Speaker 1: always my advice. If he ever does walk, he will
- 10:21Speaker 1: kill again. He said, Well, I certainly agree with that.
- 10:24Speaker 1: When you have the kind of sociopathy that Brian Kolberger has, Yeah,
- 10:28Speaker 1: that's definitely going to happen. So now that he has
- 10:32Speaker 1: this lawyer, my guess is we're going to start to
- 10:34Speaker 1: see some motions get filed both ways, And when those
- 10:38Speaker 1: motions do get filed, we'll get those motions added to
- 10:41Speaker 1: the catalog and will certainly discuss them. As for this one,
- 10:45Speaker 1: well that's going to do it. All the information that
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