Prosecutors in the Idaho college murders trial disputed a claim by Bryan Kohberger's defense attorneys, who said the suspect's DNA could have been planted at the scene.
Police block the rental home where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death in November 2022, in Moscow Idaho, as plans to demolish the structure began in May 2023.
Investigative Genetic Genealogy helped law enforcement eventually link Kohberger to the crime scene, after a more common DNA criminal profiling method, called a short tandem repeat analysis , first found no match with the DNA left at the crime scene. Kohberger's attorneys said last month they should get additional discovery on the genealogical "family tree" which helped lead authorities to their client.
In their filing Monday, the prosecution said that even if Kohberger's team wants to go down that road and claim that process was "rigged" -- it would be an irrelevant argument because they are not planning to present the genetic genealogy information at trial. Because they don't plan to use the IGG analyses at trial, the prosecution argued it wasn't relevant information to disclose. Anyone involved with those analyses wouldn't constitute a prosecution witness, thus making that defense argument inapplicable, they said.
Prosecutors allege that in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, Kohberger, a criminology Ph.D. student at nearby Washington State University, broke into an off-campus home and stabbed to death four University of Idaho students: Ethan Chapin, 20; Madison Mogen, 21; Xana Kernodle, 20, and Kaylee Goncalves, 21.
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