A surviving roommate of the Moscow, Idaho dwelling the place 4 folks had been killed in November 2022 has agreed to an interview with suspect Bryan Kohberger’s protection counsel, in accordance with a court docket submitting.
Kohberger, a former criminology Ph.D. candidate at Washington State College, is accused of coming into a house close to the College of Idaho campus on Nov. 13 at round 4 am and stabbing 4 folks inside. Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves, each 21, together with Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, each 20, had been killed.
In response to a police affidavit, one of many two survivors in the home heard a commotion and noticed a masked man depart the home by a rear sliding door.
The second roommate, who lives in Nevada, was named in a Washoe County court docket submitting on Monday. In response to the court docket submitting made by Richard Bitonti, an investigator working for Kohberger’s court-appointed lawyer Anne Taylor, the second roommate suspected of listening to or noticed issues that may clear the suspect.
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In a Wednesday court docket submitting, the legislation agency representing the roommate in Nevada stated that she had agreed to an interview with Kohberger’s protection counsel in Reno, Nevada, as an alternative of being compelled into showing in Idaho.
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The roommate’s lawyer and Kohberger’s protection counsel each requested within the submitting for the preliminary subpoena to be dismissed.
The preliminary subpoena demanded the roommates’ look at a preliminary listening to on June 28. It additionally warns that she may face a $500 high-quality or 25 days in jail if she does not comply.
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“Throughout the course of my investigation, it turned identified to me that [she] has info materials to the fees towards Mr. Kohberger,” Bitonti wrote within the affidavit in assist of the subpoena.
Among the info, Bitonti contends, “is exculpatory to the defendant.”
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Kelli Anne Viloria, the lawyer representing the second roommate in Nevada, initially argued that the Idaho subpoena wasn’t correctly filed and stated that “there isn’t a authority for an Idaho legal defendant to summon a Nevada witness to Idaho for preliminary listening to.”
“There may be additionally no authority for an Idaho legal defendant to summon a Nevada witness to an Idaho matter and not using a listening to and there’s no authority to summon a Nevada witness to an Idaho matter and not using a Nevada decide making a discovering of materiality, necessity and the shortage of undue hardship,” she wrote.
Fox Information’ Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.