- Bryan Kohberger's defense team suggested they may be able to evoke an alibi for their client.
- They say in new court documents that witnesses may prove Kohberger was not at the scene.
Bryan Kohberger's defense team suggested they may be able to evoke an alibi from witnesses on the stand at his upcoming murder trial, according to new court documents filed in Idaho district court on Monday.
The lawyers hint that Kohberger's team has evidence that he was not at the crime scene — the house of four University of Idaho students who he is accused of murdering on November 13, 2022.
"Evidence corroborating Mr. Kohberger being at a location other than the King Road address will be disclosed pursuant to discovery and evidentiary rules as well as statutory requirements," the filing said.
The filing stops short of saying what the evidence is or that they even have it at this time.
'It is anticipated this evidence may be offered by way of cross-examination of witnesses produced by the State as well as calling expert witnesses," the documents added.
Prosecutors have already said in a probable cause affidavit that authorities discovered a tan leather knife sheath laying on the bed where the bodies of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves.
The Idaho state lab located a single source DNA on the knife sheath, which had "Ka-Bar," "USMC," and the United States Marine Corps eagle globe and anchor insignia stamped on the outside of it, Moscow police said.
When investigators searched the trash from Kohberger's parents home in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania, they found DNA that had a familial match to the DNA found on that sheath, prosecutors said.
Kohberger's trial — in which jurors will decide if he's guilty of killing Mogen, Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle — is expected to begin on October 2.