I think his addiction was in teens, early 20s. But yeah, media is basically creating his profile (and guilt). Finding a jury for this one should be quite a task, although the evidence is pretty overwhelming . I still find the surviving roommates actions strange ..not to the point of involvement or anything. But scared enough to not go check on 4 friends for 8 hours, but not scared enough to run out the front door at some point or call the cops…even Howard Blume wasn’t able to come up with an explanation.
Seems like a Hail Mary to me… but the Kohberger defense is running with the alternate suspect thing. So far what they have presented hasn’t been acceptable to the judge. Another hearing set for may 23. Strange to me that if there was something like this, he would t have presented it right away instead of sitting on it in jail for 3 years.
I wish the guy would just take a guilty plea and save the families the gruesome details of a trial. They’d probably take the death penalty off the table anyway if he just pled guilty
Seems like he’s dying on that hill…. It appears that the majority of the new info revealed on dateline, is from a leak. That has pissed off the judge, the the point of maybe appointing a special prosecutor. Could lead to a mistrial . This guy doesn’t show the emotion of someone rotting in jail for 3 years for something he didn’t do. He wasn’t the least bit Surprised he was arrested. Almost seems like he played a game that he may know some ins and outs.
The prosecutors have to be very careful about this. If the courts see the State using the death penalty as leverage in plea negotiations, it reinforces defense arguments that the death penalty is arbitrarily applied. That's the kind of thing that might lead to a state court declaring the death-penalty statute unconstitutional.
