BOISE, Idaho — Defense attorneys for Bryan Kohberger will attempt to remove the possibility he’d face the death penalty, a sentence prosecutors plan to pursue if a jury finds him guilty of murder in the deaths of four University of Idaho students in November 2022.
Kohberger’s defense team met a court deadline Thursday to file challenges to the state’s planned pursuit of capital punishment.
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