Speaker 1: This is your crime alert. I'm Jennifer Gould. Attorneys for
Speaker 1: the man accused of butchering four University of Idaho students,
Speaker 1: want the trial moved, saying it's impossible to get a
Speaker 1: fair trial in Leyta County. Here's defense attorney Lisa Massif,
Speaker 1: addressing the court Monday.
Speaker 2: Our defense team firmly, and I mean firmly believes in
Speaker 2: mister Coberger's in a sense, and right now he's being
Speaker 2: held to have a trial in a county that believes
Speaker 2: that he is guilty. If you deny a change of venue,
Speaker 2: mister Coberger's constitutional right to a fair trial is denied.
Speaker 1: Brian Coburger is accused of fatally stabbing four students, Kayleie
Speaker 1: Gonkalvis twenty one, Madison Mogan twenty one, Santa Kernodle twenty
Speaker 1: Ethan Chapin twenty at a rental home near campus in
Speaker 1: Moscow in the early morning hours of November thirteenth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. Coburger twenty nine, was arrested said six weeks
Speaker 1: after the slaughter at his parents' Pennsylvania home. Investigators say
Speaker 1: DNA found on a knife sheath left at the crime scene.
Speaker 1: Cell Phone data and surveillance video tied him to the
Speaker 1: Grizzly murders, but Coburger's attorneys insist it wasn't him. They
Speaker 1: say the then grad student, who was studying criminal justice
Speaker 1: at Washington State University in nearby Pullman, was out driving
Speaker 1: around stargazing, not committing a quadruple homicide. This week, lawyers
Speaker 1: squared off in the Laytak County Courthouse. Coburger's public defenders
Speaker 1: pushing to move the trial citing too many connections to
Speaker 1: the case in Moscow, attained to jurypool and intense media coverage,
Speaker 1: not to mention a violation of the accused killer's constitutional rights.
Speaker 1: They want to move to Boise, three hundred miles away,
Speaker 1: but prosecutors are fighting against the change of venue. Here's
Speaker 1: Leaytak County Prosecutor Bill Thompson, We at least.
Speaker 2: Oh Laytak County, the people of Laytok County, the attempt
Speaker 2: to see the journey here first and not just relying
Speaker 2: on there's been a lot of publicity. There's been a
Speaker 2: lot of publicity everywhere.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors have until August twelfth to challenge the motion, and
Speaker 1: more arguments are expected two weeks after that. A judge
Speaker 1: entered a not guilty plea on Coburger's behalf in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three. His trial is expected to begin in June
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. More crime and justice news after this.
Speaker 1: A Missouri woman not happy with her fast food order,
Speaker 1: is accused of assault. According to court documents, Tulane Carter
Speaker 1: walked into a Jack in the Box in Saint Louis
Speaker 1: on July sixteenth to complain to the manager that she
Speaker 1: was short changed of a chicken strip in her order
Speaker 1: three days earlier. The manager gave the forty one year
Speaker 1: old a bonus strip to make her happy, but Carter
Speaker 1: still wasn't because this time she wasn't given enough ranch dressing.
Speaker 1: So the irate customer spat in the manager's face, walked out,
Speaker 1: and got into her car. According to documents, the manager
Speaker 1: went after her and tried to take down her license
Speaker 1: plate number. That's when, as it says in the probable
Speaker 1: cause statement, Carter put her car in reverse, ran down
Speaker 1: the victim, and then took off. Carter was arrested the
Speaker 1: next day by Saint Louis Metropolitan Police. She's been charged
Speaker 1: with assault and remains behind bars without bond. Her next
Speaker 1: hearing is July thirtieth. The eateries manager was not severely heard,
Speaker 1: just a bruce ankle and a few cuts, and perhaps
Speaker 1: it's a sign that justice will always prevail. A Florida
Speaker 1: man wanted for battery, false imprisonment and tampering tried to
Speaker 1: pull a fast one on authorities. Johnny Yates put a
Speaker 1: sign in the window of his Lakeview home scrawled in
Speaker 1: marker on a dry erase board. It read Johnny Yates
Speaker 1: does not live here. But it didn't work. When Polk
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's deputies knocked on the door at two forty
Speaker 1: five in the afternoon last Saturday. Guess who they found
Speaker 1: hold up inside. After an hour of trying to coax
Speaker 1: the fugitive out make tossed in the smoke bombs, but
Speaker 1: the final takedown came courtesy of a department Knine Dexter.
Speaker 1: Yeates is now taking up residents at the County jail.
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