The defense contracted a company to write questions for the survey, which the state argued were 'reckless and outrageous.'
Bryan Kohberger's defense attorney said she did not write the questions, which asked people what they knew about the University of Idaho killings.LATAH COUNTY, Idaho — State prosecutors raised concerns to a Latah County judge about a recent phone survey contracted by the defense team ofThe defense team for Kohberger hired a company to conduct a survey to gauge the potential jury pool in Latah County, Idaho, where the 2022 killings took place.
Questions in the survey ranged from asking people if they had seen, read or heard if Kohberger's DNA was found on a weapon at the scene, if a car similar to the one he drove was found at the scene and if he had stalked one of the victims, among other inquiries. “There is absolutely no question that those questions are disseminating, by means of communication, evidence expected to be presented, evidence that could be or would be inadmissible at trial … I will say there are a number of these representations placed in the form of a question by representation of fact that are not true,” Thompson said.
Taylor responded that"nobody is injecting anything into the case." Taylor argued that less than 1% of the county's population had been surveyed.
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