Bryan Kohberger planned to blame the friends of the victims

Bryan Kohberger planned to assert the trial that the four students of the Idaho University they murdered were killed by three of their friends.

These three people are not appointed, but an order of the court filed only a few days before Kohberger concluded an agreement with the prosecutors to avoid the death penalty – which was obtained by people – details their relations with the victims Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.

The judge of the District Court of the County of Ada, Steven Hippler, wrote in an order of the court that the three persons that Kohberger provided for accusing murders “was each socially linked to one or more victims, interacted with one or more of the victims during the social events in the hours preceding the homicides, lived at a distance from the crime scene and knew the layout of the previous social events. ”

There was also a fourth suspect possible that Kohberger hoped to introduce the trial, but this person had only “passage of passage” with one of the victims, according to the court order.

This fourth person noticed one of the victims by shopping about five weeks before the murders, according to the order.

“He followed him briefly at the end of the store while considering approaching him to speak. He turned away before talking to him,” said order.

The order said Kohberger could not present any of the four as “alternative authors” during his murder trial.

“Although these evidence may be able to suggest an opportunity to commit crime – which, without a doubt, is an opportunity shared by dozens of others in the social circles of the victims – there is no convincing evidence that one of them had a reason to kill the victims – much less difficult to physically – or a way to do so,” wrote the judge to the three friends.

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Judge Hippler also said that the proximity of these friends with the crime scene was a questionable point – given the evidence already submitted in the case. “The fact that these people lived at a distance from the crime scene is not convincing proof since the attacker led a vehicle to the crime scene,” wrote the judge.

He added that “none of these people were driving a vehicle corresponding to the description of the alleged killers”.

Police also questioned these four people at some point, according to the order – and the four cooperated with the police. The four also provided DNA samples, that the determined laboratory tests were not correspondence to DNA found on the crime scene, wrote the Judge Hipper.

The ordinance did not prevent Kohberger and the defense lawyer Anne Taylor from “confront and examine the witnesses responsible for the application of state laws concerning the meticulousness of the investigation, in particular by following and excluding the tracks in general,” said Judge to Epelle later.

It is possible that the prescription emptied Kohberger’s defense strategy: Judge Hipler filed this order on June 26, and the next day, the Kohberger’s defense team contacted the prosecutors to discuss the possibility of a plea agreement.

Kohberger then signed the adviser on the advocacy on June 30, then his factual written base admitting the four murders on July 1 before appearing in court to judge his pleas on July 2.

His conviction is scheduled for July 23, during which he will have the opportunity to contact the family and friends of his victims after having published their impact declarations on the victim.

Kohberger could also use this time to share his motive for murders, which remains a mystery.

The Latah County prosecutor Bill Thompson recommends Kohberger to serve four sentences with perpetuity without parole for murders, plus an additional 10 years for an accusation of burglary.