Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Bryan Kohberger is accused of committing an unspeakably evil act, stabbing to death four University of Idaho students in their off-campus home in November 2022. The killings were brutal, and as soon as Kohberger was arrested, some members of the victims' families demanded that he should be executed if he is convicted. Kohberger is due to stand trial in August. In the run-up to that trial, his defense lawyers have filed a flurry of motions challenging various aspects of the prosecution's case. Filing such motions is standard in death cases, though in Kohberger's case, the defense and prosecution have done much of that work in secret.

Fox News correspondent Matt Finn reports the defense team is asking the state to share the evidence given to the grand jury that indicted Bryan Kohberger. Lawyers for Idaho murder suspect Bryan Kohberger won a small victory this week when a judge granted his request to access training records of three police officers involved in the investigation of the murders of four University of Idaho students. The defense team argued that they wanted to understand the methods the officers utilized, citing their critical role in the probe against their client, News Idaho 6 reported. Bryan Kohberger enters the courtroom for his arraignment hearing in Latah County District Court on May 22. His lawyers have been granted access to officer training records for those involved in his murder case. Kohberger, 28, is accused of fatally stabbing the college students four University of Idaho students in a 4 a.m.