Bryan Kohberger Lawyer's Secret Conflict-Of-Interest Hearing Revealed! See Why She Was Allowed To Take The Case!
03.03.2023 - 05:45
/ perezhilton.com
Will this satisfy critics of the attorney who took Bryan Kohberger‘s case?
For those who don’t know, the man accused of brutally murdering four University of Idaho students in that shocking November massacre was assigned a public defender named Anne Taylor. The assignment almost immediately caused a swell of controversy — as it came to light the lawyer had also represented three different parents of the murder victims!
As the chief counsel in the Kootenai County Public Defender’s Office, she previously represented Maddie Mogen’s father and stepmother on drug charges. And she was even representing Xana Kernodle’s mother Cara, also for a drug arrest, right up until the murder case came in. She had to hand that case over to someone else in order to represent Kohberger — after all, it would be something of a conflict of interest to represent an accused murderer AND a parent of the victim at the same time.
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But, uh, why wasn’t it a conflict of interest already? Why didn’t they get another public defender?? One big reason is that Taylor is one of only 13 public defenders in the entire state approved to handle capital cases — ones where prosecutors may seek the death penalty. Hence why she would have been chosen. But what about the conflict? All we knew before was that she had a behind-closed-doors meeting with the judge in the case, Megan E. Marshall.
Well, now we finally know what was said in the secret hearing that got her cleared to step in!
NewsNation‘s Brian Entin got hold of the court transcripts, and it turns out it wasn’t just Taylor and Judge Marshall. This was a full hearing with both attorneys AND Kohberger in attendance, held back on
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