Every case that I've had that garnered local media coverage, and after watching that coverage left me wondering if I was in the same court room.

Nancy Grace is a shrill harpy, I'd love to have tried a case against her.

I know it flies against a lot of the beliefs here, but when you've seen some of blunders and exploitation in cases, you tend to trust very little and make sure you turn over every little rock in the investigation before trial.

Despite the pronouncements he is still innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, by the triers of fact, not Nancy, FOX or the prosecution.

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Until the prosecution shows the rest of their evidence, it isn't worth speculating.
More than likely they have said just enough to arrest and charge him with more to come.

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The people were stabbed to death w a large knife.

The guy arrested had his DNA on a Ka-Bar sheath found next to one of the people killed.

It isn't like his DNA was found on a coffee table.

If the weapon used wasn't just "a large knife", but a large knife of a particular width, with serrations on one edge, capable of penetrating to a depth of "X" number of inches, it could infer that the weapon was similar to or WAS a "Ka-Bar" knife sold with a similar sheath. Very strong circumstantial evidence and (FWIW) circumstantial evidence can be and frequently is much more powerful than eyewitness testimony.

It seems to me the biggest problem for the prosecutor is dealing with a contaminated crime scene.

One of the surviving roommates on the first floor (known as DM) opened her door and saw a tall man walking towards her, didn't recognize him so she closed and locked her door. Decided to go back to bed until around noon. I guess she decided that something wasn't right and called some friends who came over and lord knows where they all went inside that house. It was one of them that called 911 for a "medical emergency".

My head hurts thinking about how to sort all of that out.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0...erger-fired-wsu.html

The Ph.D. student charged with murdering four University of Idaho undergraduates displayed such troubling behavior in the weeks around the killings that his university investigated his conduct around women, counseled him over a verbal altercation with a professor and ultimately fired him from his job as a teaching assistant, according to interviews and a university record.


Mr. Kohberger began having troubles about a month into the fall semester, his first at Washington State. He had an “altercation” on Sept. 23 with John Snyder, the W.S.U. professor he was assisting, according to the termination letter, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times.

Then, on Nov. 2, department leaders met with Mr. Kohberger to discuss an improvement plan, the letter recounts. Eleven days later, the four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death overnight in a home just off campus in Moscow, Idaho.

In the termination document, officials described a second “altercation” that Mr. Kohberger had with the professor after the killings, on Dec. 9. Later that month, the department decided to remove him from his position as a teaching assistant, cutting off his pay and saying that he “had not made progress regarding professionalism.”