She's literally doing everything to try to throw mud in the wheels of this case, and you have to give her credit for that I suppose. This investigative genetic genealogy evidence is
not being offered at trial as proof of his guilt. The state has emphatically stated so (page 10 forward). Therefore this path she's going down is legally and factually irrelevant imo. There is no constitutional concerns in researching a public database. There is no more of a fruit of the poisonous tree imo, a concept so many love to throw around out of context on so many other social media sites (as they are doing here in the case of this IGG), with this
investigative technique than there would be for a lie detector test. Both are tools.
But, I have a feeling the judge will indulge her. After all, he has on every single thing she's asked for be it permissible discovery, prohibited discovery, or discovery she's flat out not entitled to under the rules. This evidence she's asking for
is not evidence. It will
not be presented at trial. It is wholly irrelevant. But without it the
people of Idaho can't pay BK's "expert" to take the stand and testify that the "investigative"
tool (and the defense imo will never characterize it as investigative. Rather, their goal will be try to make it seem as if it is "the" thing that served to result in his indictment, and this is simply not true) that LE used leading them to the K family tree, violated BK's 4th Amendment rights. Same counter/rebuttal testimony as a million other times by the same defense expert I wld expect. jmo
The state even expects he will indulge her. FN 6 reserves their right to enter into evidence if he does.
All jmo
DNA found on a Ka-Bar knife sheath found under the body of a murder victim in the Idaho Four case is a “statistical match” to Bryan Kohberger, the man charged in the murders, prosecutors say in a new court filing. The revelation about the DNA evidence came in a motion for a protective order...
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