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Speaker 1: Crime Al Art hourly update, Breaking crime news Now. I'm

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Speaker 1: Drew Nelson. Brian Coberger's defense team continues to challenge the

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Speaker 1: evidence in the Idaho college murders case. His lawyers seek

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Speaker 1: to suppress DNA evidence and other materials, arguing investigators violated

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Speaker 1: his rights. Judge Stephen Hipler's rulings on these matters could

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Speaker 1: shape the trial set to begin in August. Crime Onlines

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Speaker 1: Holden Zapple reports in.

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Speaker 2: A closed exporte hearing Tuesday morning, defense attorneys discuss their

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Speaker 2: motion to suppress evidence due to law enforcement's use of

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Speaker 2: a DNA match as the basis for several searches. Judge

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Speaker 2: Stephen Hipler and the defense will reconvene with prosecutors Thursday

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Speaker 2: for formal arguments on the evidence issues and other motions.

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Speaker 2: While defense attorneys have requested the entire hearing be open

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Speaker 2: to the public, Judge Hipler will determine how much of

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Speaker 2: the arguments will happen behind closed doors. Many expect the

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Speaker 2: hearing to continue through Friday.

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Speaker 1: Coburger's legal team argues that DNA evidence derived through recently

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Speaker 1: developed technology is unconstitutional. Crime Online Sidney Sumner explains.

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Speaker 3: Paramount to the defense's evidence suppression. Arguments is that investigator's

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Speaker 3: use of a controversial new technique known as investigative Genetic

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Speaker 3: genealogy or IgG, was unconstitutional. Defense attorneys claimed Coburger's right

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Speaker 3: to privacy was violated when his genetic material was uploaded

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Speaker 3: to a public ancestry database. The defense argues that any

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Speaker 3: evidence gathered after identifying Coburger through IgG should not be

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Speaker 3: allowed in front of a jury. Prosecutors have previously said

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Speaker 3: that while IgG was initially used to identify Coburger, it

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Speaker 3: was not the basis to obtain search warrants and will

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Speaker 3: not be used at trial.

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Speaker 1: The defense is also challenging the scope of search warrants

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Speaker 1: in the case. Crime Online's Dave Mack reports.

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Speaker 4: Coberger's defense is challenging nearly all of the evidence against

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Speaker 4: the accused killer, claiming police violating Coburger's rights and improperly

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Speaker 4: obtained search warrants. The defense argues all data from Coburger's phone,

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Speaker 4: including his Google, Apple, and Amazon accounts, should not be

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Speaker 4: allowed into evidence, along with anything sees from his parents'

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Speaker 4: Pennsylvania home, his Washington apartment, or his car. The defense

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Speaker 4: claims law enforcement intentionally withheld exculpatory information from a judge

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Speaker 4: to obtain the search warrants, and that the scope of

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Speaker 4: the searches was too broad.

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Speaker 1: The prosecution responding to the defense's broad suppression demands, denying

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Speaker 1: their claims that search warrants were improperly obtained, and defending

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Speaker 1: law enforcements work in the case. The state argues expansive

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Speaker 1: searches of Coburger's electronic devices, home, and car were necessary

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Speaker 1: because criminals quote don't advertise where they keep evidence. They

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Speaker 1: also assure the judge that the item seesed directly pertained

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Speaker 1: to the crime Coburger stands accused of. Up next, what

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Speaker 1: Coburger said to police before being read his rights more

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Speaker 1: on the twenty twenty two University of Idaho quadruple murder case.

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Speaker 1: After this, one of the most his critical pieces of

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Speaker 1: evidence is the DNA found on a knife sheath left

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Speaker 1: at the crime scene. Brian Coberger's attorneys want this evidence suppressed,

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Speaker 1: claiming the investigative methods were flawed. Additionally, they are requesting

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Speaker 1: public hearings to challenge the veil of secrecy surrounding the case.

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Speaker 1: The defense is also moving to suppress Coburger's statements the

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Speaker 1: night of his arrest which begs the question did the

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Speaker 1: accused quadruple murderer incriminate himself. Coburger's attorneys claim when Coburger

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Speaker 1: was held at gunpoint and had his hands zip tied,

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Speaker 1: he made statements to the officers surrounding him despite not

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Speaker 1: having been read his rights. The defense further once any

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Speaker 1: statements Coburger made in transport and without an attorney present

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Speaker 1: during interrogation at the Monroe County Correctional Facility stricken. The

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Speaker 1: death penalty remains a focal point of the trial. Coburger's

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Speaker 1: lawyers have filed motions to strike it, alleging the state

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Speaker 1: failed to meet deadlines to turn over expert witness lists

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Speaker 1: crime onlines. Holden's Apple explains.

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Speaker 2: Despite Judge Stephen Hipler's ruling that the death penalty ruler

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Speaker 2: remained on the table for Coburger, his defense team may

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Speaker 2: be gearing up to argue for its removal again. The

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Speaker 2: defense now alleging the prosecution has failed to meet the

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Speaker 2: deadline to turn over its list of experts for trial.

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Speaker 2: Coburger's attorneys claim that the state's expert witness briefs are

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Speaker 2: overly brought and do not address the scope of the

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Speaker 2: opinions those called to testify and may offer a trial.

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Speaker 2: While the defense has not yet moved to sanction the prosecution,

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Speaker 2: their filing includes a threat to seek a remedy of

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Speaker 2: striking the death penalty if the deficiencies with the witness

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Speaker 2: list are not resolved.

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Speaker 1: Amid these legal battles, Coburger's careful behavior before his arrest

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Speaker 1: has raised suspicions crime onlines holden Zapple continues.

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Speaker 2: A police source says Brian Coburger cleaned his car meticulously,

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Speaker 2: both inside and out, in the days leading up to

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Speaker 2: his arrest. The source, speaking anonymously, says, during the four

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Speaker 2: days of surveillance of the Coburger family's Pennsylvania home, the

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Speaker 2: suspect was seen detailing his white Hondai a Lantra quote

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Speaker 2: not missing in inch. Some of the trash taken from

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Speaker 2: the car was deposited in a neighbour's trash bin. At

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Speaker 2: four a m. Agents recovered the garbage and some items

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Speaker 2: were sent to the Idaho State Lab for testing. Detectives

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Speaker 2: also seized a car vacuum, reportedly used to clean out

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Speaker 2: the vehicle.

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Speaker 1: As the trial gets nearer, attention is turning to the

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Speaker 1: extensive witness list. Prosecutors planned to call over two dozen

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Speaker 1: expert witnesses, including DNA analysts and crime scene reconstruction specialists.

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Speaker 1: For more on the twenty twenty two murders of Kaylee Gonzalvez,

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Speaker 1: Madison Mogan, Xanakernodle, and Ethan Chapin at the University of Idaho,

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Speaker 1: Join Nancy tonight at six and nine pm on Doctor

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Speaker 1: Phil's new network, Merritt Street Media. Check your local listings

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Speaker 1: for channel assignment, or follow crime stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: on your favorite podcast app with this crime alert. I'm

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Speaker 1: Drew Nelson.