Judge orders change of venue in trial of man charged with killing 4 Idaho college students
A judge has agreed to move the trial of man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students to a different city.
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Kohberger, a former criminal justice student at Washington State University, which is across the state line in Pullman, faces four counts of murder in the deaths of Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves.
The four University of Idaho students were killed sometime in the early morning hours of Nov. 13, 2022, in a rental house near the campus.
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The killings stunned students at both universities and left the small city of Moscow deeply shaken. The case also spurred a flurry of news coverage, much of which Kohberger맥스카지노s defense team says was inflammatory and left the community strongly biased against their client.