So we realized final week the long-awaited “alibi” of Bryan Kohberger. The accused killer within the surprising murders of 4 University of Idaho college students final November is making ready for his trial, and his public defender needed to current her concept of the case.
In this case, they stated they’d be placing up an alibi protection. And that alibi? Kohberger was… driving round, all on his personal, with nobody to again that story up. Um… what?! The submitting learn:
“Mr. Kohberger is not claiming to be at a specific location at a specific time; at this time there is not a specific witness to say precisely where Mr. Kohberger was at each moment of the hours between late night November 12, 2022, and early morning November 13, 2022. He was out, driving during the late night and early morning hours of November 12-13, 2022.”
Look, we’re no massive metropolis attorneys. Nor are we small city attorneys. But we’ve watched sufficient Law & Order to know that’s perhaps the worst alibi we’ve ever heard. You need to have proof or witnesses to again up an alibi! That’s what makes it an alibi and never simply… saying IT WASN’T ME!
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Well, celeb legal professional Neama Rahmani is keen to go one step additional than calling it a crap alibi. The former federal prosecutor and president of the West Coast Trial Lawyers says it’s not likely an alibi in any respect!
Speaking to Dailymail.com on Thursday, Rahmani blasted the authorized tactic by saying they’re simply attempting to poke holes within the prosecutors’ case as a substitute of presenting any precise alibi:
“It’s not a real alibi defense. It’s more, sort of, cross examining the government’s witnesses and arguing by inference that because [Kohberger’s] phone wasn’t there, Kohnberger wasn’t there, either.”
So if all they’re doing is saying the federal government can’t show Kohberger was on the home on the time of the killings via using his cellphone… is that an alibi? We are inclined to suppose Rahmani is true right here!
But will Anne Taylor and the remainder of Kohberger’s authorized workforce get in bother for not assembly the usual of a correct alibi protection? Or will prosecutors be comfortable to permit the protection to current subsequent to nothing to the jury?
We’ll see quickly sufficient! The trial is presently scheduled to start out in October.
[Image via Monroe County Correctional Facility/Kaylee Goncalves/Instagram.]
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