Latest / Beyond The Horizon / Mega Edition: Bryan Kohberger Requests That All Camera's Be Removed From The Courtroom (9/26/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. Things in
- 0:04Speaker 1: the Brian Koberger trial continue to move at a quick pace. Recently,
- 0:10Speaker 1: we had the trial suspended indefinitely, and also there have
- 0:14Speaker 1: been a flurry of other filings behind the scenes. And
- 0:19Speaker 1: one of those filings has to do with removing cameras
- 0:23Speaker 1: from the courtroom. And there's been a lot of back
- 0:25Speaker 1: and forth thus far between the media, between the prosecution
- 0:29Speaker 1: and between the defense about cameras in the courtroom and
- 0:33Speaker 1: what kind of access they're going to have. Now, one
- 0:36Speaker 1: of the big problems with cameras in the courtroom, according
- 0:39Speaker 1: to the defense, is that the cameras have a tendency
- 0:43Speaker 1: to zoom in for a close up of the defendant
- 0:46Speaker 1: for the whole entire proceeding. And this is what happened
- 0:49Speaker 1: with Lori Vallow, according to Judge Boyce. So that's something
- 0:53Speaker 1: that the defense has brought up. And what they're saying
- 0:56Speaker 1: is going to happen here. Now, my opinion is they
- 1:00Speaker 1: should just meet halfway. Cameras should be allowed in the courtroom,
- 1:04Speaker 1: but it should be a wide shot. Have one camera
- 1:07Speaker 1: crew in the back of the room, one big wide
- 1:10Speaker 1: shot so we can all see what's going on and
- 1:12Speaker 1: keep it moving. Because we don't need the camera zoomed
- 1:16Speaker 1: in on Kohlberger, right? We all know who is on trial.
- 1:19Speaker 1: We all know who he is. So what's the point
- 1:22Speaker 1: in zooming in on him? So I understand that from
- 1:25Speaker 1: the defense's point of view. This is a high profile
- 1:28Speaker 1: case and you don't want to give the other side
- 1:30Speaker 1: any sort of ground, right? So you want to make
- 1:34Speaker 1: sure that you're pounding away at every little thing. chipping
- 1:37Speaker 1: away at the facade, and hopefully you chip away enough
- 1:41Speaker 1: that the jury starts to wonder if the narrative being
- 1:45Speaker 1: presented by the prosecution is really that solid. And that's
- 1:49Speaker 1: what they're attempting to do here. They're attempting to find
- 1:52Speaker 1: a weakness so that they can utilize those technicalities and
- 1:57Speaker 1: try and get their client off. Today's article is from
- 2:00Speaker 1: ABC News and the headline, Brian Koberger's lawyers seek to
- 2:04Speaker 1: remove cameras from the courtroom. This article was authored by
- 2:09Speaker 1: Sasha Pezenik. Attorneys for Brian Koberger, the man accused of
- 2:13Speaker 1: killing four University of Idaho college students last fall, have
- 2:18Speaker 1: asked the judge to nix cameras in the courtroom for
- 2:21Speaker 1: the remainder of the proceedings. And look, I know that
- 2:24Speaker 1: the burden of proof is on the state, but if
- 2:27Speaker 1: I was an innocent man, I'd want cameras in this room.
- 2:30Speaker 1: I'd want the whole entire thing broadcast to the wide
- 2:33Speaker 1: world to show them that I'm being railroaded. In a
- 2:38Speaker 1: new court filing released Friday, the defense says the camera
- 2:42Speaker 1: wielding courtroom observers have failed to obey an earlier directive
- 2:47Speaker 1: not to focus exclusively on their client, pointing to photos
- 2:51Speaker 1: that they said were a blatant violation and the headlines
- 2:55Speaker 1: they called blatantly sensationalistic and prejudicial. Here we go with
- 3:00Speaker 1: the prejudicial and sensationalistic stuff again. technicalities and loopholes. Oh,
- 3:06Speaker 1: the jury pool's gonna be tainted. Meanwhile, in New York,
- 3:09Speaker 1: they're calling Heuermann an ogre. They're calling him a killer,
- 3:13Speaker 1: a cold-blooded monster. But Brian Kohlberger's rights are being stepped
- 3:17Speaker 1: on because cameras are gonna be in the courtroom. Man,
- 3:20Speaker 1: shut up. I don't know how much more clear I
- 3:22Speaker 1: need to be about that. This dude's entering Ghislaine Maxwell
- 3:26Speaker 1: territory with as much as he's relying on technicalities at
- 3:29Speaker 1: this point, and it's gonna lead to a death sentence. That,
- 3:33Speaker 1: the defense said, necessitates the expulsion of cameras from future proceedings.
- 3:39Speaker 1: The defense stated cameras' continued exclusive focus on Kohlberger also
- 3:44Speaker 1: provides fodder for those on social media who are not
- 3:47Speaker 1: bound by notions of journalistic integrity, who have potentially an
- 3:51Speaker 1: even greater reach than traditional media outlets. What that means
- 3:55Speaker 1: is they can't control the narrative with people like me.
- 3:59Speaker 1: So what they'll do is they'll come out and say, oh,
- 4:01Speaker 1: this is all prejudicial to our client. No, it's not.
- 4:04Speaker 1: The public is not bound by the same rules as
- 4:07Speaker 1: the jury. We can sit around and talk about this
- 4:09Speaker 1: one's guilty or that one's guilty as much as we want. What,
- 4:14Speaker 1: you think Brian Kohlberger's getting a worse shake than Trump
- 4:17Speaker 1: when it comes to that? I mean, come on. So
- 4:19Speaker 1: I don't expect his attorneys to say anything else. But
- 4:22Speaker 1: when you look around at some of the other cases
- 4:24Speaker 1: of high profile, all the wringing of the hands and
- 4:27Speaker 1: the gnashing of the teeth here about a potentially tainted
- 4:30Speaker 1: jury pool is much ado about nothing. And I've told
- 4:34Speaker 1: you that from the very beginning. Considering this is a
- 4:37Speaker 1: capital case, it is not surprising defense counsel seeks to
- 4:41Speaker 1: insulate the defendant as much as possible. David Calviero, a
- 4:45Speaker 1: former New Jersey prosecutor who is now a criminal defense attorney,
- 4:49Speaker 1: said in order to improve the client's chances of success
- 4:53Speaker 1: in a capital case, it's imperative that they get a
- 4:55Speaker 1: jury that knows little to nothing about the case. It
- 4:59Speaker 1: doesn't help to have unflattering images of the defendant's face
- 5:03Speaker 1: emblazoned in their memory. So how are you going to
- 5:06Speaker 1: find a jury that fits those parameters for Donald Trump?
- 5:11Speaker 1: And if you can find a jury for Donald Trump,
- 5:13Speaker 1: you mean to tell me you can't find a jury
- 5:15Speaker 1: for Brian Koberger? My answer is you're bullshitting. And my
- 5:19Speaker 1: answer is stop it. There's going to be a jury.
- 5:22Speaker 1: It's not going to be tainted. And Brian Koberger is
- 5:25Speaker 1: going to get a fair shake. All of this is
- 5:28Speaker 1: loophole and technicality strategy 101. Arguing that the rampant coverage
- 5:33Speaker 1: could prejudice a potential jury pool, Kohlberger's lawyers said that
- 5:37Speaker 1: the risk is wherever they go, viewable on their smartphones,
- 5:41Speaker 1: and constantly updated by thousands of unchecked sources. Well, you
- 5:45Speaker 1: wanted the gag order. Dumb dumb, if you didn't have
- 5:48Speaker 1: the gag order, maybe people would have an idea what's
- 5:51Speaker 1: going on. But since you guys have the gag order
- 5:54Speaker 1: in place, we have to deal with tarot card readers, psychics,
- 5:57Speaker 1: spirit box people, and a whole bunch of other clowns
- 6:01Speaker 1: under this big tent of this circus that has shown
- 6:04Speaker 1: up in Moscow. And furthermore, instead of complaining about a
- 6:07Speaker 1: potentially tainted jerry pool, how about you work on your
- 6:10Speaker 1: client's alibi? Far from constituting an undue and over-restrictive burden
- 6:16Speaker 1: on the press right of free speech, Koberger's lawyers said, Mr.
- 6:20Speaker 1: Koberger is entitled to defend himself against capital criminal charges
- 6:24Speaker 1: without cameras focused on his fly. Well, those kids, Maddie, Zanna, Ethan,
- 6:30Speaker 1: and Kaylee, they were all entitled to have a life.
- 6:33Speaker 1: They were all entitled to still live. I think Koberger
- 6:36Speaker 1: can suffer through some cameras in the courtroom. The judge
- 6:39Speaker 1: has not yet weighed in on the request. Koberger's push
- 6:43Speaker 1: to banish cameras from the court as the one-time doctoral candidate,
- 6:48Speaker 1: now facing capital murder charges, has also just moved to
- 6:51Speaker 1: dismiss the indictment against him for the second time, arguing
- 6:55Speaker 1: in a separate court filing that prosecutors used inadmissible evidence
- 7:00Speaker 1: in presenting their case to the grand jury, that they
- 7:03Speaker 1: lack sufficient evidence and have withheld evidence that might aid
- 7:07Speaker 1: Koberger in defending himself in the capital murder case he faces.
- 7:12Speaker 1: And Kohlberger's team makes claim after claim and drops bomb
- 7:15Speaker 1: after bomb, but they never have any evidence to back
- 7:18Speaker 1: it up. Can you please point to me where all
- 7:21Speaker 1: of this prosecutorial indiscretion occurred? Because I haven't seen any
- 7:26Speaker 1: of it yet. A memo with further details has been
- 7:30Speaker 1: filed under seal. But in their filing, Kohlberger's lawyers have
- 7:34Speaker 1: cited select Idaho statutes that they say the prosecution violated
- 7:39Speaker 1: during the grand jury process. One state rule of evidence
- 7:43Speaker 1: they specifically point to says evidence must be proven authentic
- 7:47Speaker 1: to back up their case, whether it's witness testimony, distinctive
- 7:51Speaker 1: characteristics of the item taken together with all the circumstances,
- 7:56Speaker 1: or an opinion identifying a person's voice, the rule says.
- 8:00Speaker 1: Their public filing does not delve into the specifics of
- 8:04Speaker 1: what Koberger's team alleges, but police have insisted that a
- 8:08Speaker 1: critical eyewitness account on the night of the murder's links
- 8:11Speaker 1: Kohlberger to the scene. And that obviously is the eyewitness
- 8:16Speaker 1: account of Dylan Mortensen. She saw a man with bushy
- 8:20Speaker 1: eyebrows that fits Kohlberger's description. So she's definitely going to
- 8:24Speaker 1: testify come trial time. So what they're trying to do
- 8:27Speaker 1: here is pull an end around on that and try
- 8:31Speaker 1: and make it so her testimony doesn't really mean much.
- 8:34Speaker 1: Because remember, it's a game of credibility, right? The whole
- 8:38Speaker 1: idea is... You want your side to be more credible
- 8:41Speaker 1: than the other side. That way the jury looks at
- 8:44Speaker 1: the narrative that you're pitching and says to themselves, all right,
- 8:47Speaker 1: this is the truth, obviously, and here's the evidence to
- 8:50Speaker 1: back it up. Prosecutors allege that in the early morning
- 8:54Speaker 1: hours of November 13th, 2022, Kohlberger, a criminology PhD student
- 9:00Speaker 1: at nearby Washington State University, broke into an off-campus home
- 9:05Speaker 1: and stabbed to death four University of Idaho students. Ethan Chapin,
- 9:10Speaker 1: Madison Mogan, Zanna Kernodle, and Kaylee Gonsalves. Around the time
- 9:15Speaker 1: the killings allegedly occurred, authorities say one of the surviving
- 9:19Speaker 1: roommates in the home heard what she thought was crying
- 9:22Speaker 1: coming from Kernodle's room and heard a male voice saying
- 9:26Speaker 1: something to the effect of, It's okay, I'm going to
- 9:29Speaker 1: help you. Imagine this sick, degenerate, disgusting animal. It's okay,
- 9:33Speaker 1: I'm going to help you. And then murdering this poor girl.
- 9:37Speaker 1: Opening her door, the roommate saw a figure clad in
- 9:39Speaker 1: black clothing and a mask that covered the person's mouth
- 9:43Speaker 1: and nose walking towards her. A figure she described as
- 9:46Speaker 1: 5'10 or taller, male, not very muscular, but athletically built
- 9:51Speaker 1: with bushy eyebrows, according to the affidavit. Authorities said Kohlberger's
- 9:56Speaker 1: driver's license information and photograph indicates that Kohlberger is a
- 10:01Speaker 1: white male with a head of six foot and weighs
- 10:04Speaker 1: 185 pounds. Additionally, the photograph of Kohlberger shows that he
- 10:09Speaker 1: has bushy eyebrows, which they said was consistent with the
- 10:13Speaker 1: description of the male which the surviving roommate saw inside
- 10:17Speaker 1: the King Road residence on the night of the killings.
- 10:20Speaker 1: And if it was just her testimony that they were using,
- 10:23Speaker 1: they wouldn't have a whole lot to go on here.
- 10:25Speaker 1: She didn't see his face. She saw his likeness. But
- 10:28Speaker 1: when you add up all of the other evidence and remember,
- 10:31Speaker 1: you have to look at this as the totality of
- 10:34Speaker 1: evidence collected, not just one single bit of evidence. It
- 10:37Speaker 1: certainly puts things into a different context. Because with just
- 10:41Speaker 1: one little piece of evidence such as this, you could
- 10:44Speaker 1: say to yourself, well, there's enough reasonable doubt here that
- 10:48Speaker 1: we could say it's not Brian Koberger. But when you
- 10:51Speaker 1: add all the other stuff and then the DNA as
- 10:54Speaker 1: the glue that binds it all together, I don't know
- 10:56Speaker 1: how you arrive anywhere else besides at a destination that
- 11:00Speaker 1: includes Brian Koberger looking guilty as hell. After a six-week
- 11:05Speaker 1: hunt last winter, police zeroed in on Koberger as a suspect,
- 11:09Speaker 1: saying they tracked his white Hyundai Elantra and cell phone
- 11:12Speaker 1: signal data and recovered what authorities said was his DNA
- 11:16Speaker 1: on a knife sheath found next to one of the
- 11:18Speaker 1: victim's bodies. He was arrested on December 30th and indicted
- 11:23Speaker 1: in May and charged with four counts of first-degree murder
- 11:26Speaker 1: and one count of burglary. At his arraignment, he declined
- 11:30Speaker 1: to offer a plea, so the judge entered a non-guilty
- 11:33Speaker 1: plea on his behalf. If convicted, Kohlberger could face the
- 11:38Speaker 1: death penalty. Though the trial was initially set for October 2nd,
- 11:42Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Kohlberger waived his right to a speedy trial,
- 11:46Speaker 1: postponing the trial indefinitely. Calvillo said, with their latest motion
- 11:51Speaker 1: to dismiss, Kohlberger's team is attempting to poke holes in
- 11:55Speaker 1: the case against their client. citing foundational rules that form
- 11:59Speaker 1: the threshold for a legitimate claim as they try to
- 12:02Speaker 1: show the case fails to be sufficient. Whether or not
- 12:06Speaker 1: they'll succeed in this motion remains to be seen, and
- 12:09Speaker 1: without knowing the details, we're left to speculate, but it
- 12:12Speaker 1: tells us they may be upping the ante, especially now
- 12:15Speaker 1: that they have more time to do so. Calvillo told
- 12:19Speaker 1: ABC News, I mean, they can try all they want,
- 12:22Speaker 1: and they can throw all the accusations they want out there,
- 12:25Speaker 1: But the rubber's going to meet the road the second
- 12:28Speaker 1: court starts. The day the proceedings begin, all that bullshit
- 12:32Speaker 1: goes out the window. And if you don't believe me,
- 12:35Speaker 1: just ask that Scafusa, Lori Vallow. One of the rules
- 12:39Speaker 1: cited in Koberger's latest attempt to dismiss the indictment notes
- 12:42Speaker 1: that evidence about a process or system should show that
- 12:46Speaker 1: it produces an accurate result. Kohlberger's defense is repeatedly pushed
- 12:51Speaker 1: for prosecutors to disclose more information about the investigative genetic genealogy,
- 12:57Speaker 1: which eventually helped law enforcement link him to the crime scene. Yeah, sure.
- 13:02Speaker 1: When you give us more information about the alibi. The
- 13:06Speaker 1: prosecution's assertion that Kohlberger's DNA was found on the button
- 13:09Speaker 1: of the snap of the knife sheath is a critical
- 13:12Speaker 1: linchpin of their larger circumstantial case. Like I just said,
- 13:16Speaker 1: that's the glue that binds everything together. And that's why
- 13:21Speaker 1: Kohlberger's team is going so hard against the DNA. And
- 13:26Speaker 1: Kohlberger's defense has attempted to cast doubt on the strength
- 13:29Speaker 1: of investigators' DNA evidence and whether it pointed irrefutably to
- 13:34Speaker 1: just their client. Kohlberger's defense has alleged that his DNA
- 13:38Speaker 1: could have been put on the K-Bar knife sheath by
- 13:41Speaker 1: someone other than him, for instance, During the investigation, which
- 13:45Speaker 1: spanned hundreds of members of law enforcement and at least
- 13:48Speaker 1: one lab, they suggested in a June court filing. So basically,
- 13:52Speaker 1: they're taking the Mark Furman approach here and saying that
- 13:56Speaker 1: somebody planted this evidence. Talk about grasping for straws. You
- 14:02Speaker 1: want to talk about a drowning man looking for any
- 14:04Speaker 1: debris to grab onto? Folks, you're seeing it here. This
- 14:08Speaker 1: is not Koberger's first attempt at tossing out the indictment.
- 14:12Speaker 1: In late July, they asked that the indictment be dismissed,
- 14:15Speaker 1: arguing that the indictment is flawed because the grand jury
- 14:18Speaker 1: was misled as to the standard of proof required. That
- 14:22Speaker 1: motion is still pending. Responding to Koberger's second push to
- 14:26Speaker 1: dismiss in a filing released Friday, prosecutors leading the case
- 14:30Speaker 1: against him asked for more time to respond, pointing to
- 14:34Speaker 1: their more than 100-page supporting argument Koberger's team included in
- 14:38Speaker 1: their motion including detailed, factual, and evidentiary issues, which the
- 14:44Speaker 1: prosecution team say required review of the grand jury transcript
- 14:49Speaker 1: and complex scientific representations and disputes. The prosecution asked to
- 14:55Speaker 1: address both his attempts to dismiss the charges against him
- 14:58Speaker 1: in one hearing in late September. a request to which
- 15:01Speaker 1: Koberger's attorney agreed. The judge has yet to weigh in
- 15:06Speaker 1: on that motion as well. So as you can see here,
- 15:09Speaker 1: things are in motion and this process is fully underway.
- 15:13Speaker 1: And considering we're this far along in the process, I'm
- 15:17Speaker 1: not very impressed with what Koberger has brought to the
- 15:19Speaker 1: table thus far. And while the onus of proof is
- 15:22Speaker 1: certainly on the prosecution, you should be showing up with
- 15:26Speaker 1: a better strategy at the very least. Because the whole
- 15:29Speaker 1: it wasn't me, That's not going to work out so
- 15:32Speaker 1: well when all the evidence gets presented. So unless he
- 15:35Speaker 1: has something up his sleeve and a different sort of
- 15:37Speaker 1: strategy cooking somewhere, he might as well be climbing up
- 15:41Speaker 1: Mount Everest with no shoes. All right, folks, that's going
- 15:45Speaker 1: to do it for this one. All of the information
- 15:47Speaker 1: that goes with this episode can be found in the
- 15:50Speaker 1: description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program.
- 15:56Speaker 1: In this episode, we're going to dive back into the
- 15:58Speaker 1: court documents, and this time, we're taking a look at
- 16:01Speaker 1: the state's brief on video and photographic coverage. Case number CR29-22-2805,
- 16:07Speaker 1: State of Idaho Plaintiff, 1st Brian Christopher Koberger, the defendant.
- 16:15Speaker 1: In the state's view, the decision of whether to allow
- 16:18Speaker 1: video or photographic coverage of the proceedings in this case
- 16:22Speaker 1: is left to the sound discretion of the court. Idaho
- 16:25Speaker 1: Court Administrative Rule I.C.A.R. 45. The courts have not held
- 16:30Speaker 1: that there is a First Amendment or other constitutional right
- 16:34Speaker 1: of the media to broadcast or photograph a proceeding. In fact,
- 16:38Speaker 1: there have been circumstances where the United States Supreme Court
- 16:42Speaker 1: has held that extensive broadcasting and photographing of a proceeding
- 16:47Speaker 1: to be violative of a defendant's due process rights. Siestas v.
- 16:52Speaker 1: Texas 381 U.S. 532, 1965, and Chandler v. Florida, 449 U.S., 560, 1981.
- 17:02Speaker 1: As guidance, the state has attached the recent decision by
- 17:06Speaker 1: the 7th Judicial District Judge, Stephen Boyce, in the case
- 17:10Speaker 1: of State of Idaho v. Lori Noreen Vallow, a.k.a. Lori
- 17:14Speaker 1: Noreen Vallow Daybell, case number CR 22-21-1624. A similar rationale
- 17:17Speaker 1: may exist here. The state would further note that Federal
- 17:25Speaker 1: Rule of Criminal Procedure 53 prohibits courtroom photographing and broadcasting
- 17:31Speaker 1: except as otherwise allowed by rule or statute in federal cases.
- 17:36Speaker 1: The state also has the following concerns about allowing broadcasting
- 17:40Speaker 1: or photographing at the trial in this case. The state
- 17:44Speaker 1: has a number of sensitive witnesses who would likely be intimidated, harassed,
- 17:48Speaker 1: or harmed by a live broadcast of the trial, two
- 17:51Speaker 1: jurors unless sequestered, would have off hours, access to the broadcast,
- 17:56Speaker 1: which may include discussions which were outside of the jury's purview,
- 18:00Speaker 1: and three, witnesses would have access to broadcast showing the
- 18:05Speaker 1: specific testimony of other witnesses. Finally, if the court were
- 18:09Speaker 1: inclined to allow video or photographic coverage, the state would
- 18:13Speaker 1: recommend that the court control the positioning, location, and zoom
- 18:17Speaker 1: of any camera, whether by order or by simply controlling
- 18:20Speaker 1: any recording itself. To ensure the camera or photographing is
- 18:25Speaker 1: not solely focused on one participant, that it does not
- 18:28Speaker 1: capture any sensitive or inadmissible materials, and that it does
- 18:32Speaker 1: not subject any trial participant to excessive coverage. Respectfully submitted
- 18:37Speaker 1: this sixth day of June 2023, and this was signed
- 18:41Speaker 1: by Bradley Rudley. The first document we're going to look
- 18:45Speaker 1: at is the Memorandum Decision and Order Prohibiting Video and
- 18:49Speaker 1: Photographic Coverage. Case number CR22-21-1624. State of Idaho plaintiff. First,
- 18:58Speaker 1: Lori Noreen Vallow, a.k.a. Lori Noreen Vallow Daybell. Pending before
- 19:03Speaker 1: the court is the defendant's motion to clarify media in
- 19:06Speaker 1: the courtroom. Filed August 30th, 2022. Requesting cameras to be
- 19:11Speaker 1: banned from future proceedings. On September 8th, 2022, several non-party
- 19:17Speaker 1: media entities, media, sought and obtained permission. From the court,
- 19:21Speaker 1: to file as interested persons a response to defendant's motion
- 19:25Speaker 1: arguing media had at no time failed to comply with
- 19:29Speaker 1: orders of this court governing media coverage of in-court proceedings.
- 19:33Speaker 1: On September 12, 2022, the state filed a concurrence with
- 19:37Speaker 1: the defendant's motion. On September 15, 2022, the court heard
- 19:42Speaker 1: argument on the issue at a hearing. Having fully reviewed
- 19:46Speaker 1: the record, relevant rules, and case law, and upon the
- 19:49Speaker 1: request of A sacrosanct protection of the penal system in
- 19:41Speaker 1: the United States of America is the insistence of a
- 19:44Speaker 1: fair trial. by an impartial jury to those accused of
- 20:04Speaker 1: even the most severe crimes as set forth in the
- 20:07Speaker 1: Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution. In all criminal prosecutions,
- 20:12Speaker 1: the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and
- 20:15Speaker 1: public trial by an impartial jury of the state and
- 20:19Speaker 1: district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district
- 20:23Speaker 1: shall have been previously ascertained by law and to be
- 20:26Speaker 1: informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to
- 20:29Speaker 1: be confronted with the witnesses against him, to have compulsory
- 20:33Speaker 1: process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have
- 20:37Speaker 1: the assistance of counsel for his defense. U.S. Constitution, Amendment No. 4.
- 20:43Speaker 1: The court is presenting today with a joint request from
- 20:46Speaker 1: the defendant and the state to disallow certain media activity
- 20:50Speaker 1: in future courtroom proceedings in this case. Countering that request
- 20:54Speaker 1: are several media entities, who have argued that the First
- 20:56Speaker 1: Amendment affords the media certain rights and that those rights
- 21:00Speaker 1: are best achieved by disseminating audio and video coverage of
- 21:04Speaker 1: court proceedings. To be clear, no party has argued that
- 21:08Speaker 1: the court should fully prescribe media coverage of this case
- 21:11Speaker 1: by issuing a prior restraint on speech, such as a
- 21:14Speaker 1: gag order, on media reporting. Rather, the request of the
- 21:18Speaker 1: defendant and the state in its concurrence, is that the
- 21:22Speaker 1: court clarify or reconsider the scope of the media's activity
- 21:26Speaker 1: authorized by the court's order governing courtroom conduct issued in
- 21:30Speaker 1: the case April 14, 2022. The instant case has garnered
- 21:35Speaker 1: significant media attention worldwide. The court has previously considered the
- 21:41Speaker 1: deluge of publicity, Shepard v. Maxwell, 384, U.S. 333-357, 1966,
- 21:49Speaker 1: And upon determining that Idaho Criminal Rule 21A and Idaho
- 21:53Speaker 1: Code Section 19-1801 applied, the court ordered a transfer of
- 21:57Speaker 1: trial from Fremont County, Idaho, to the most populous county
- 22:01Speaker 1: in the state, Ada County, in order to mitigate the
- 22:04Speaker 1: effects of pretrial publicity and detrimental impact on selecting an
- 22:09Speaker 1: impartial jury. 2. Standard of Adjudication Idaho Court Administrative Rule
- 22:15Speaker 1: 45 I.C.A.R. 45 sets forth the procedures and considerations for
- 22:21Speaker 1: trial courts to evaluate audio and visual coverage of public
- 22:26Speaker 1: proceedings in Idaho courts. I.C.A.R.45A, the presiding judge, maintains the
- 22:33Speaker 1: right to limit audio-visual coverage of any public hearing when
- 22:37Speaker 1: the interests of the administration of justice requires. Authorization may
- 22:41Speaker 1: be revoked at any time without prior notice. when in
- 22:45Speaker 1: the discretion of the court it appears that audio-visual coverage
- 22:48Speaker 1: is interfering in any way with a proper administration of justice. i.c.a.r.45b
- 22:56Speaker 1: The presiding judge may, at his or her discretion, limit, restrict,
- 23:00Speaker 1: or prohibit audio-visual coverage at any proceeding. Any decision regarding
- 23:05Speaker 1: audio-visual coverage is not subject to appellate review. Part 3
- 23:11Speaker 1: Discussion First, the court affirms that there is no indication
- 23:15Speaker 1: that any order related to the conduct of the media
- 23:18Speaker 1: during hearings in this case or the companion case, Fremont
- 23:22Speaker 1: County case number CR 2221-1623, State of Idaho versus Chad Daybell,
- 23:29Speaker 1: have been violated. The court has likewise witnessed no misconduct
- 23:33Speaker 1: on any part of the media during hearings in these cases.
- 23:37Speaker 1: The presence of media during the hearings has in no
- 23:40Speaker 1: way interrupted those proceedings and and attending media have been
- 23:43Speaker 1: respectful and professional. Notwithstanding, the court determines that the concerns
- 23:49Speaker 1: raised in the defendant's motion to clarify media in the
- 23:52Speaker 1: courtroom and the state's concurrence are well-founded. The court has
- 23:57Speaker 1: carefully considered the arguments presented at the September 15, 2022
- 24:01Speaker 1: hearing on this issue, including the arguments of Mr. Wright,
- 24:05Speaker 1: counsel for numerous media clients. Subsequent to the hearing and
- 24:09Speaker 1: upon request of counsel, the court also reviewed the video
- 24:12Speaker 1: footage of an August 16, 2022 hearing as cited in
- 24:17Speaker 1: the state's concurrence. The court concurs with the defendant's arguments
- 24:21Speaker 1: that the footage of the August 16 hearing demonstrates an
- 24:24Speaker 1: inordinate focus on the defendant zooming onto her face throughout
- 24:28Speaker 1: the vast majority of the hearing, regardless of who was
- 24:31Speaker 1: speaking or what was happening. This court has previously permitted
- 24:35Speaker 1: cameras in the courtroom during this case. allowing both photography
- 24:40Speaker 1: and video transmissions. But when the case is as sensational
- 24:44Speaker 1: as this one, and tensions develop between the right of
- 24:47Speaker 1: the accused to trial by an impartial jury and the
- 24:50Speaker 1: rights guaranteed others by the First Amendment, Nebraska Press Association
- 24:54Speaker 1: Stewart 427 U.S. 539-551. Further, the capacity of the jury
- 25:00Speaker 1: eventually impaneled to decide the case fairly is influenced by
- 25:04Speaker 1: the tone and extent of the publicity. Idaho at 554
- 25:09Speaker 1: and 555. Such is precisely the conflict here. While the
- 25:14Speaker 1: right to public access must be protected, the scope of
- 25:16Speaker 1: the coverage cannot supersede the rights of all parties to
- 25:19Speaker 1: the fair administration of justice in this case, relating to
- 25:23Speaker 1: extensive media coverage. In this day and age, the problem
- 25:27Speaker 1: is further exasperated when instantaneous access to coverage provided by
- 25:32Speaker 1: traditional media outlets is quickly rebroadcast, repackaged, and reimagined. The
- 25:38Speaker 1: court has previously been made aware and continues to be
- 25:41Speaker 1: informed that documentaries, dramatizations, and fictionalized movies focusing on the
- 25:47Speaker 1: defendants and allegations in this case have already been produced
- 25:51Speaker 1: and continue to be disseminated to the public. All of
- 25:55Speaker 1: this continues to occur in a case which has not
- 25:58Speaker 1: yet been tried. The court is very concerned that continued
- 26:02Speaker 1: visual coverage of this case will impede the ability of
- 26:05Speaker 1: the parties to select fair and unbiased jurors. The court
- 26:08Speaker 1: has refrained from delving into viewing the coverage in this case.
- 26:12Speaker 1: The coverage is so extensive the court has had to
- 26:14Speaker 1: proactively avoid viewing it, as it is routinely part of
- 26:18Speaker 1: local and at times national news. The affidavit submitted by Mr.
- 26:23Speaker 1: Wright confirms this. in that just one of Mr. Wright's
- 26:26Speaker 1: 30-plus clients distributes footage from hearings in this case to
- 26:30Speaker 1: dozens of media organizations and millions of viewers. In fully
- 26:35Speaker 1: considering this decision, the court notes that the media have
- 26:38Speaker 1: raised a compelling issue, public access for the citizens of
- 26:42Speaker 1: Fremont and Madison counties. The excessive coverage of this case
- 26:46Speaker 1: has already resulted in the court's determination that a trial
- 26:50Speaker 1: will be held in Ada County, Idaho, as the court
- 26:53Speaker 1: has previously concluded that it would be unlikely to obtain
- 26:56Speaker 1: unbiased jury pool within the home county of this case,
- 27:00Speaker 1: Fremont County. It is unfortunate that local citizens, including citizens
- 27:05Speaker 1: of both Fremont and Madison Counties, who bear the cost
- 27:08Speaker 1: of this case and should be given local access to
- 27:10Speaker 1: this trial, should they wish to attend, now cannot do
- 27:14Speaker 1: so without inconvenience. Upon full consideration of the arguments of
- 27:18Speaker 1: the state and the defense, notably concurring with each other,
- 27:22Speaker 1: the court is persuaded that further visual coverage of this
- 27:25Speaker 1: case will run afoul of the court's consideration set forth
- 27:28Speaker 1: plainly in I.C.A.R.45. The rule provides this court discretion to
- 27:34Speaker 1: make this determination. I.C.A.R.45A states, in part, audio-visual coverage is
- 27:41Speaker 1: authorized subject to the discretion of the presiding judge. I.C.A.R.45B states,
- 27:48Speaker 1: in part, the presiding judge may at his or her
- 27:51Speaker 1: discretion limit, restrict, or prohibit audiovisual coverage at any proceeding.
- 27:57Speaker 1: The court determines herein that continued visual coverage of this
- 28:00Speaker 1: case poses a great risk to the fair administration of
- 28:04Speaker 1: justice in this case and co-defendant Chad Daybell's companion case,
- 28:08Speaker 1: which cases are joined for trial. Therefore, continued visual coverage
- 28:13Speaker 1: will no longer be permitted. The court determines that this
- 28:16Speaker 1: decision applies to all future pretrial motions and trial, where
- 28:20Speaker 1: continued coverage of pretrial motions will likely cause potential jurors
- 28:24Speaker 1: to be biased, disqualifying them from service. Coverage during trial
- 28:29Speaker 1: arises additionally and equally serious concerns. The court will not
- 28:34Speaker 1: risk the loss of seated jurors who may intentionally or
- 28:37Speaker 1: inadvertently review the very trial proceedings they are sworn to decide.
- 28:42Speaker 1: where those jurors must make their decision only upon the
- 28:45Speaker 1: evidence presented at trial. The court will not risk a
- 28:49Speaker 1: potential loss of state or defense witnesses who may intentionally
- 28:53Speaker 1: or inadvertently become tainted by viewing the trial proceedings before
- 28:57Speaker 1: they testify, assuming their exclusion from the proceedings as is
- 29:01Speaker 1: regularly ordered for material witnesses. The court further is concerned
- 29:06Speaker 1: that at trial, the added unnecessary pressure witnesses and counsel
- 29:10Speaker 1: will be subject to knowing their every expression, utterance, and
- 29:13Speaker 1: appearance will be captured and circulated without their control and
- 29:17Speaker 1: perpetuity is unwarranted and will likely interfere with fair administration
- 29:22Speaker 1: of justice in this case. Subjecting trial participants, including attorneys
- 29:26Speaker 1: and witnesses, to the added pressure may unfairly influence jurors
- 29:31Speaker 1: who may incorrectly question credibility based on the reactions to
- 29:34Speaker 1: that pressure. Therefore, in the discretion of the court, pursuant
- 29:38Speaker 1: to I.C.A.R., and B, authorization of all video and photographic
- 29:43Speaker 1: coverage in the courtroom in this case and at all
- 29:47Speaker 1: further proceedings, including trial, is revoked. Audio recording of all
- 29:52Speaker 1: future proceedings will be continued to be permitted, with the
- 29:55Speaker 1: court utilizing the in-courtroom microphones operated by court personnel. Any
- 30:01Speaker 1: third-party recording will be subject to future approval and, if approved,
- 30:05Speaker 1: will be monitored to ensure that microphones are located to
- 30:09Speaker 1: ensure that unwarranted conversations between counsel and clients are not recorded. Finally,
- 30:15Speaker 1: in order to facilitate the attendance of the trial in
- 30:18Speaker 1: Ada County by Fremont County and Madison County citizens who
- 30:21Speaker 1: wish to attend and who have lost the ability to
- 30:24Speaker 1: attend in person without great inconvenience, the court intends to
- 30:28Speaker 1: provide enhanced access for Fremont and Madison County residents by
- 30:32Speaker 1: providing designated seating at trial in a manner to be
- 30:35Speaker 1: further determined. Conclusion, defendant's motion to clarify media in the
- 30:40Speaker 1: courtroom together with the state's concurrence and expressed request to
- 30:44Speaker 1: remove cameras from the courtroom is granted. All right, now remember,
- 30:49Speaker 1: that's the order from the Lori Vallow trial, and they're
- 30:52Speaker 1: just using this order as precedent, basically, for them trying
- 30:56Speaker 1: to get cameras removed from the courtroom. And as we
- 30:59Speaker 1: know now, it doesn't look like Judge Judge is going
- 31:02Speaker 1: to go that way. But that's going to do it
- 31:05Speaker 1: for this one for now. All of the information that
- 31:07Speaker 1: goes with this episode can be found in the description box.
- 31:12Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the program. Yesterday,
- 31:16Speaker 1: we were talking about the new ruling by Judge Judge
- 31:20Speaker 1: that had to do with cameras in the courtroom. And
- 31:23Speaker 1: just as we suspected, Judge Judge split the baby here
- 31:27Speaker 1: and decided that we're going to have cameras in the courtroom,
- 31:30Speaker 1: but they're not going to be cameras that are provided
- 31:34Speaker 1: by the media. Instead, what he's going to do is
- 31:37Speaker 1: use the baked-in system that the court already has. They
- 31:41Speaker 1: have an audio system. They have a video system. And
- 31:45Speaker 1: he's going to use that to broadcast this trial on
- 31:48Speaker 1: a live stream. And when we were discussing this previously,
- 31:51Speaker 1: that's what I said I thought would happen. I thought
- 31:54Speaker 1: that Judge Judge would take control of the whole entire proceeding, basically,
- 31:58Speaker 1: when it comes to video and photography inside of the courtroom.
- 32:03Speaker 1: That way he has a better handle on what's going on,
- 32:05Speaker 1: where the cameras are focusing, and what audio is being
- 32:09Speaker 1: pumped out into the live stream, as opposed to having
- 32:13Speaker 1: the media in charge where he really doesn't have a
- 32:15Speaker 1: handle on things and can only put out orders, right,
- 32:19Speaker 1: and hold people accountable. But the idea is for it
- 32:22Speaker 1: never to get to that point. And to help make
- 32:24Speaker 1: sure that doesn't occur, Judge Judge has decided that the
- 32:28Speaker 1: best course of action here is for him to take
- 32:31Speaker 1: over the proceedings as far as the video goes, as
- 32:34Speaker 1: far as photography goes, and then that way everybody's needs
- 32:38Speaker 1: are met. We as the public still get to take
- 32:41Speaker 1: a look at what's going on. We get to see
- 32:43Speaker 1: everything unfold like we should be able to. And at
- 32:47Speaker 1: the same time, Judge Judge is protecting Brian Kohlberger's right
- 32:51Speaker 1: to a fair trial. And as much as you might
- 32:53Speaker 1: think that Brian Kohlberger might be guilty, he still deserves
- 32:57Speaker 1: a fair trial, right? Just like anybody else. Today's article
- 33:00Speaker 1: is from the Idaho Statesman and the headline, Judge Bans
- 33:05Speaker 1: Media Cameras in Brian Kohlberger Case Offers New Way to
- 33:08Speaker 1: Watch the Moscow Trial. This article was authored by Sally Krutzig.
- 33:14Speaker 1: A court order from the judge overseeing the case against
- 33:17Speaker 1: Brian Kohlberger, who's suspected of murdering four University of Idaho students,
- 33:22Speaker 1: publicly released Monday, outlines his new rules regarding cameras in
- 33:26Speaker 1: the courtroom during Kohlberger's trial. Judge John Judge, of Idaho's
- 33:31Speaker 1: 2nd Judicial District in Latah County, previously said he would
- 33:35Speaker 1: permit cameras but wanted to have more control over them.
- 33:39Speaker 1: In the court order, Judge said he will grant Kohlberger's
- 33:42Speaker 1: motion to remove cameras operated by the media, including both
- 33:46Speaker 1: video and still photography. Instead, a court-operated camera will livestream
- 33:52Speaker 1: the trial, which the public will be able to watch
- 33:55Speaker 1: online on Judge's YouTube channel. And honestly, I don't really
- 33:59Speaker 1: care where we're getting the stream from, the legacy media
- 34:03Speaker 1: or the judge himself, whatever. As long as we have
- 34:06Speaker 1: a window into that courtroom to see how everything breaks down,
- 34:11Speaker 1: then that's all I really care about. And considering we're
- 34:14Speaker 1: going to have this live feed, I'll probably do some
- 34:18Speaker 1: live streams when we get to the point of this
- 34:21Speaker 1: hitting trial. The judge said his order that this route
- 34:25Speaker 1: will ensure the public still has access to see the
- 34:28Speaker 1: proceedings for themselves if they cannot attend hearings in person.
- 34:32Speaker 1: The ruling was filed at 5 p.m. on Friday and
- 34:35Speaker 1: made public through the Idaho Judicial Branch website on Monday.
- 34:40Speaker 1: And we had this episode added to the catalog yesterday
- 34:44Speaker 1: as far as the order goes because it's very important, right?
- 34:48Speaker 1: This is a very big order and it affects everybody
- 34:51Speaker 1: who's following the case because there's been so much secrecy
- 34:55Speaker 1: Dropped over this case, can you imagine the uproar if
- 34:59Speaker 1: cameras were barred on top of there being a gag
- 35:01Speaker 1: order and no transparency as it is? In a case
- 35:05Speaker 1: that has garnered national interest, Koberger, 28, is accused of
- 35:09Speaker 1: stabbing four U of I students to death at an
- 35:12Speaker 1: off-campus Moscow home in November of 2022. The victims were
- 35:17Speaker 1: seniors Kelly Gonsalves and Madison Mogan, both 21, and juniors
- 35:22Speaker 1: Anna Karnodal and freshman Ethan Chapin, both 20. The decision
- 35:28Speaker 1: comes after months of disagreement played out through court documents
- 35:31Speaker 1: and hearings between the defense team and media outlets over
- 35:35Speaker 1: whether cameras could prejudice a jury. And that's why we've
- 35:39Speaker 1: been following along with all of those court documents. That way,
- 35:43Speaker 1: when we get to a point like we're at now,
- 35:45Speaker 1: we already understand what the whole entire argument is because
- 35:49Speaker 1: we've been following along behind the scenes. And I think
- 35:53Speaker 1: it's important, not only with this case, but with any
- 35:56Speaker 1: case that we talk about, if there's court documents available,
- 35:59Speaker 1: that we go through those as well, because those tell
- 36:02Speaker 1: the official narrative, right? This is what the government has.
- 36:05Speaker 1: This is what the government says occurred. Now, can they
- 36:08Speaker 1: prove it? So whenever we have court documents and they're
- 36:12Speaker 1: attached to a case that we're covering, you know, we're
- 36:15Speaker 1: going to dive into those. And speaking on that, We're
- 36:18Speaker 1: going to go into the Chad Daybell affidavit, his arrest warrant,
- 36:22Speaker 1: later on. Because before you know it, that Shrek-looking MF-er
- 36:26Speaker 1: is going to be standing up there and being judged
- 36:29Speaker 1: by a jury of his peers. And if anybody's ever
- 36:32Speaker 1: deserved to be guilty, it's that rat bastard right there.
- 36:35Speaker 1: But whenever we have these court documents, you can guarantee
- 36:39Speaker 1: that we're going to dive into them. Judge's order is
- 36:42Speaker 1: unlikely to make either side happy. The defense had asked
- 36:45Speaker 1: to ban all cameras, while media outlets asked to be
- 36:48Speaker 1: allowed to take their own footage. And this is exactly
- 36:51Speaker 1: what I expected. A lot of times, that's what you'll
- 36:54Speaker 1: see the judge do. Especially at this juncture of the proceedings.
- 36:59Speaker 1: He'll give both sides a bit of a victory, both
- 37:02Speaker 1: sides will walk away angry, and then that means it
- 37:04Speaker 1: was a good negotiation. If everybody walks away happy from
- 37:07Speaker 1: a deal, then it wasn't a good deal. But with
- 37:11Speaker 1: everybody walking away bummed out and nobody digging it, well,
- 37:14Speaker 1: guess who wins? That's right, transparency. And I'd be a liar, honestly,
- 37:18Speaker 1: if I told you that it wasn't a bit juicy
- 37:20Speaker 1: that the legacy media is going to be barred from
- 37:23Speaker 1: covering this from inside the courtroom as far as video
- 37:27Speaker 1: and photography. Because honestly, we don't need them. Let's be
- 37:31Speaker 1: very clear. And that's why I wanted a camera inside
- 37:34Speaker 1: of that courtroom so we could follow along ourselves and
- 37:38Speaker 1: we don't need a point man inside of that courtroom.
- 37:41Speaker 1: So while both sides might not be happy with what
- 37:43Speaker 1: went down here, I think as the public, this is
- 37:46Speaker 1: the best that we could have expected. Kohlberger's defense team
- 37:50Speaker 1: said media photographers and videographers had disobeyed judges' prior instructions
- 37:55Speaker 1: to avoid focusing exclusively on Kohlberger, the Idaho statesman previously reported.
- 38:01Speaker 1: The concept of removing this sort of almost sideshow from
- 38:05Speaker 1: what's being put out there, we think, would be an
- 38:08Speaker 1: important way, to kind of take away the sensationalization of
- 38:12Speaker 1: this case and just kind of reduce it to hopefully
- 38:15Speaker 1: the words on the page. Logsdon said in October at
- 38:19Speaker 1: a court hearing, and that's what it should be, but
- 38:22Speaker 1: we all know that people in general, in the general public,
- 38:26Speaker 1: are going to look at cases like this and have
- 38:28Speaker 1: an opinion. They should be more concerned about Vordire. They
- 38:33Speaker 1: should be more concerned about finding jurors that are sympathetic
- 38:36Speaker 1: to their cause. and not so worried about the public,
- 38:39Speaker 1: the public, the public. But we always have to keep
- 38:42Speaker 1: in mind, these lawyers are thinking about the long game.
- 38:45Speaker 1: So a lot of this has to do with the
- 38:47Speaker 1: appeal later on, when they know, or at least think,
- 38:50Speaker 1: their client is going to be found guilty. The judge
- 38:53Speaker 1: agreed with this assessment, in his order, noting that media cameras,
- 38:57Speaker 1: both still and video, have continued to zoom on Kohlberger,
- 39:01Speaker 1: despite a previous ruling that outlets not capture Kohlberger entering
- 39:06Speaker 1: or exiting the courtroom. It is the intense focus on
- 39:09Speaker 1: Kohlberger and his every move, along with adverse headlines and
- 39:13Speaker 1: news articles, that leads the court to conclude that continued
- 39:16Speaker 1: photograph and video coverage inside the courtroom by the media
- 39:21Speaker 1: should no longer be permitted, Judge wrote, and they only
- 39:24Speaker 1: have themselves to blame. The judge gave them enough rope,
- 39:28Speaker 1: and well, what they do like usual the legacy media
- 39:31Speaker 1: they hung themselves judge also acknowledged concerns that people could
- 39:35Speaker 1: zoom camera lenses in on defense documents in court and
- 39:39Speaker 1: present a burden for bailiffs who could be called on
- 39:42Speaker 1: to monitor members of the media And of course, Judge
- 39:45Speaker 1: said in that order that the bailiffs have other jobs
- 39:48Speaker 1: to do besides being out here and checking in on
- 39:51Speaker 1: the media to make sure they're doing the right thing.
- 39:54Speaker 1: So I completely understand Judge's order. And honestly, I agree
- 39:58Speaker 1: with it. While the Latah County Prosecutor's Office was more
- 40:02Speaker 1: acknowledging of the media's importance, it too leaned toward banning
- 40:06Speaker 1: cameras and said images and video of graphic evidence from
- 40:09Speaker 1: the crime and vulnerable witnesses' testimony would be disseminated. Well,
- 40:14Speaker 1: there's no doubt it would be. But now that the
- 40:16Speaker 1: judge has control, he's going to be able to do
- 40:19Speaker 1: what he wants. And when we have sensitive witnesses, you
- 40:23Speaker 1: better believe that the cameras are going to be turned off.
- 40:27Speaker 1: Wendy Olson, a former U.S. attorney for the state of Idaho,
- 40:30Speaker 1: represented a coalition of about two dozen media outlets, including
- 40:34Speaker 1: the Statesman, and argued at an October hearing in favor
- 40:38Speaker 1: of allowing cameras. She argued for maintaining camera access in
- 40:42Speaker 1: the courtroom on First Amendment grounds, saying it could help
- 40:45Speaker 1: limit the publishing of misinformation about the case by non-journalist
- 40:49Speaker 1: commentators the Statesman previously reported. The Gonsalves family and some
- 40:55Speaker 1: members of the Kernodle family have also publicly supported cameras
- 40:59Speaker 1: in the courtroom. The answer is not less sunshine, it's more,
- 41:03Speaker 1: Olsen told the judge. The public and this community will
- 41:07Speaker 1: be best served by having those cameras in the courtroom,
- 41:10Speaker 1: or having a feed of some sort, and that's what
- 41:13Speaker 1: we're going to get. And for my money, as long
- 41:17Speaker 1: as we have that, then I'm totally fine, and it
- 41:19Speaker 1: could even be a wide shot like we see on C-SPAN.
- 41:23Speaker 1: We don't need to see all the particulars, all the nuance.
- 41:26Speaker 1: All we need to see is the proceedings to make
- 41:28Speaker 1: sure shit's going the right way. Judge denied that any
- 41:32Speaker 1: media members had any First Amendment or other constitutional right
- 41:36Speaker 1: to record Idaho court proceedings, according to the order. Koberger
- 41:40Speaker 1: faces four counts of first-degree murder and one count of
- 41:43Speaker 1: felony burglary. A trial date has yet to be set
- 41:47Speaker 1: after Koberger waived his right to a speedy trial, but
- 41:50Speaker 1: prosecutors have already stated Their intent? To pursue the death
- 41:54Speaker 1: penalty if a jury finds him guilty, according to statesmen reporting.
- 41:59Speaker 1: And there is no doubt that's a foregone conclusion. This
- 42:02Speaker 1: dude is getting the death penalty if he's convicted, and
- 42:06Speaker 1: it is not even a debate. If you go into
- 42:09Speaker 1: somebody's home and murder them brutally like this, you deserve
- 42:14Speaker 1: the death penalty. And I've said it a million times,
- 42:16Speaker 1: I'm not really a big fan of capital punishment. I
- 42:20Speaker 1: already think the state has too much power over the populace.
- 42:24Speaker 1: But when you do something like this and the people
- 42:27Speaker 1: of the state of Idaho have voted to have the
- 42:29Speaker 1: death penalty on the books, I believe the saying is
- 42:32Speaker 1: play stupid games and you win stupid prizes. All right, folks,
- 42:37Speaker 1: that's going to do it for this one. All of
- 42:39Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
- 42:42Speaker 1: in the description box.